openssh 3.2.2p1 problem on Solaris

[Tim Rice]

There was a setsid() call added that seems to bother solaris.
See http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=245

On Mon, 20 May 2002, Lars Hecking wrote:

>
>  I have compiled openssh with the Sun compiler, for the first time :)
>  Installed it on my Solaris 8 box, restarted sshd, and connected to
>  localhost. It works, basically, but I get
>
> ...
> debug1: Entering interactive session.
> Warning: no access to tty (Inappropriate ioctl for device).
> Thus no job control in this shell.
>
>  and also
>
> May 20 18:01:01 localhost sshd[5753]: error: open /dev/tty failed - could not set controlling tty: No such device or address
>
>  in sylog, and when I exit the shell via ^D, I have to ^C, too, to get back to
>  the original shell. I think the problem is not on the client side, because
>  it works fine when connecting to another Sol8 box (running openssh 3.1p1,
>  compiled with gcc).
>
>  /dev/tty is a link to /devices/pseudo/sy at 0:tty
>
> crw-rw-rw-   1 root     tty       22,  0 May 20 18:01 sy at 0:tty
>
>  sshd runs as root
>
> $ /bin/ps -ef |grep sshd
>     root  5617     1  0 17:57:09 ?        0:00 /opt/ssh/sbin/sshd
>
>  OS is Solaris 8/SPARC 02/02, recommended patch cluster of about 3 weeks ago.
>
>  Have I overlooked anything?
>
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