Hi,

I am having some minor issues with setting up an chroot environment accessed
via ssh. When a user logs in, the message "Warning: Remote host failed or
refused to allocate a pseudo tty." appears. No prompt appears, but
everything seems to work as normal, except that error messages look somewhat
different, e.g. "sh: <stdin>[2]: sl: not found" when I issue a
(non-existing) "sl" command.

Also, when I use the less command, I get "WARNING: terminal is not fully
functional" (which may or may not be related). I have tried creating a few
(four to be exact) pty-s (ptyp0 - ptyp3) using mknod, but to no avail. I
also tried creating a the stdin, stderr and stdout devices, as well as the
random, arandom, prandom, srandom and urandom devices, but none of these
proved to solve the problem.

It is currently in testing fase, so no more than one user is logged on at
the time, but when it is deployed it will support multiple users (no more
than 6 at a time, though).

I have checked the source and turned on debugging, and as it turns out
"openpty" is the one that's failing, so what I really want to know is from
which pool openpty retrieves its pseudo tty's.

Thanks a lot!

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Martijn
http://www.sereneconcepts.nl