OpenSSH is not asking for passwords.

[Darren Tucker]

James Supancic wrote:
> I am trying to use shfs to mount a remote root filesystem for a
> diskless workstation. The system downloads its kernel and initrd from
> a server. I have tried repeatedly to get a working installation of ssh
> on the initrd with no success. I finally got ssh to connect to the
> server.
[...]
> BUT when I try to use ssh on the diskless system It goes like this
> bash-2.05b# ssh 192.168.11.10 -l root -F /etc/ssh_config
> Permission denied, please try again.
> Permission denied, please try again.
> Permission denied, please try again.
> bash-2.05b# 

Make sure your initrd image has a /dev/tty and that it has the correct 
major, minor and perms.  For Linux, that's:

$ ls -l /dev/tty
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 5, 0 Apr 23 17:43 /dev/tty

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