Hi, Joshua,
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 01:56:06PM -0500, Joshua Murphy wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Florian Philipp
> <li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net> wrote:
> > Alan Mackenzie schrieb:
> >> 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?
> My first thought as well... I'd guess, just at a glance, that sshd was
> started in the chroot, and that /mnt/gentoo/dev/ is bind mounted
> properly, but /mnt/gentoo/dev/pts/ isn't.
It was, and it is, but it isn't, just as you suggest. I've just read up
on exactly what
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev
means, and I can see I really want "-o rbind" (or --rbind) instead.
Thanks! It'll surely work, now
> Joshua M. Murphy
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
