Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

[Florian Philipp <lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net>]

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Alan Mackenzie schrieb:
> Hi, folks!
> 
> I'm trying to get sshd working on an embryonic Gentoo installation on my
> laptop.  The reason is that I want to ssh from my nice comfy desktop
> system into this laptop to do the rest of the installation stuff.
> 
> The installation kernel with which I'm having problems is:
> Linux livecd 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 #1 SMP Tue Nov 3 11:40:51 UTC 2009.
> 
> Having started sshd on my laptop, when I do
> 
>     ssh -lroot 192.168.2.101
> 
> from my desktop, I get prompted for my ssh key's pass phrase, which I
> enter.  Thereafter, nothing happens, and it continues to happen for a
> long, long time.
> 
[...]
> 
> Clearly openpty (a C function) is failing to find some file.  Don't you
> just love error messages like "No such file or directory" which forget
> to identify the filename?  I'm guessing that the file it can't find is
> the device file for the new pty.
> 
> Is there anything I can do to get sshd working from this kernel (and if
> so, what?), or is there something fundamentally wrong with the kernel
> configuration?
> 

Where did you start sshd, in the chrooted environment or on the live cd
itself?


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