On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 01:31:30PM +0100, Miod Vallat wrote: > >The problem is that when I attempt to ssh to the box then the connection > >is dropped immediately after having been authenticated. > > > >So sshd must attempt to write to some file on the ro mounted disk, but > >which one? > > Very likely a pty device in /dev.
indeedly. sshd chmods the ttyp upon login and also chowns to the user:tty. one way to deal w/ it is to remount your /dev/ from mfs (: cu -- paranoic mickey (my employers have changed but, the name has remained)