For the sake of all who have been following this thread, and anyone who
may experience this problem in the future, this appears to be an issue
with the default udev.rules on slackware. Now, I am off to figure out
what needs to be changed. Thanks to all who responded. Here are the
helpful URLs which put me on the right track:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0408.2/0627.html
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0408.2/0628.html
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0408.2/0770.html
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0408.2/0771.html
Bryan
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 08:11 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 09:58:24AM -0500, Christ, Bryan wrote:
Most of the suggestions I have read say to chmod 666 /dev/tty, but
my /dev/tty is a directory.
That's bad. That's very, very bad. I'd suggest you get in touch with
one of the support forums (mailing lists, IRC channels, etc.) for your
operating system.
ssh bryanc@192.168.0.103
Permission denied, please try again.
Permission denied, please try again.
Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-with-mic,password).
If you did indeed issue "chmod 666" on a directory, that might explain
part of the problem -- a directory which lacks the "execute" bit would
be untraversable.
debug1: read_passphrase: can't open /dev/tty: Is a directory
debug3: packet_send2: adding 8 (len 51 padlen 5 extra_pad 64)
debug2: we sent a password packet, wait for reply
debug1: Authentications that can continue:
publickey,gssapi-with-mic,password
Permission denied, please try again.
*nod* Whatever your Linux distribution has done, fixing it is probably
outside the scope of this mailing list. /dev/tty is supposed to be a
character device node. Shell scripts and other Unix programs have *always*
been able to count on "read foo < /dev/tty" working. If /dev/tty is a
directory, that will break a *lot* of stuff.
I'm hesitant to suggest even something as simple as "man MAKEDEV", for
fear that any attempt to fix this snafu (without understanding the
primary cause) will just make it worse.
