Force TTY

[olle ollesson]

Hi,

My mistake. I was reading the man pages on solaris 9. Apparently they use 
the older description still. Thanks everyone and keep up the good work.


>From: Kevin Steves <stevesk at pobox.com>
>To: olle ollesson <bpsr77 at hotmail.com>
>CC: openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org, dtucker at zip.com.au, stevesk at pobox.com
>Subject: Re: Force TTY
>Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:30:12 -0800
>
>On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 03:31:33PM +0100, olle ollesson wrote:
>: Yes, I've already figured that out but that seems rather lika a 
>workaround
>: for a bug than an intentional design. The dokumentation says:
>:
>:    -t    Forces pseudo-tty allocation. This can be used to exe-
>:            cute  arbitrary  screen-based  programs  on  a  remote
>:            machine, which can be very useful, for  example,  when
>:            implementing menu services.
>:
>: It doesn't state that you need to give this option twice in order for it 
>to
>: have effect. So the question remains, why the if statement?
>
>ssh.1 has stated the following for close to 5 years:
>
>      -t      Force pseudo-tty allocation.  This can be used to execute 
>arbi-
>              trary screen-based programs on a remote machine, which can be
>              very useful, e.g., when implementing menu services.  Multiple 
>-t
>              options force tty allocation, even if ssh has no local tty.
>
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