On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> The latest ssh package (1.2.1pre24-1) appears to have an odd problem: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh athens.arena.com > You have no controlling tty. Cannot read passphrase. > > > This problem occurs both in X (under xterm and Eterm) and on console. > I recompiled openssh 1.2.1pre24 from the Debian sources and got the > same problem (I didn't try just the original sources, though). > > I finally compiled the non-free ssh Debian source and it works okay > which leads me to believe its not my tty but OpenSSH. I had the same problem on i386 just a couple weeks ago. I ended up wiping the whole machine (had some partition problems, and I was trying to 3-way bloze, Debian, and BeOS), but I suspected the problem might have been pam-related.
