On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 02:48:36PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote >> Hi, folks! >> >> I'm trying to get sshd working on an embryonic Gentoo installation on my >> laptop. The reason is that I want to ssh from my nice comfy desktop >> system into this laptop to do the rest of the installation stuff. >> >> The installation kernel with which I'm having problems is: >> Linux livecd 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 #1 SMP Tue Nov 3 11:40:51 UTC 2009. >> >> Having started sshd on my laptop, when I do >> >> ssh -lroot 192.168.2.101 >> >> from my desktop, I get prompted for my ssh key's pass phrase, which I >> enter. Thereafter, nothing happens, and it continues to happen for a >> long, long time. > > Has your install gotten to the stage where you can chroot and emerge > and unmerge. If so, I would suggest the following... > 1) unmerge pam. *DO NOT LOGOUT OR REBOOT* > 2) put the line > sys-libs/pam > in /etc/portage/package.mask Create the file if it doesn't exist. > 3) emerge shadow *BEFORE YOU LOG OUT OR REBOOT*. > > Pam is an extra-high-security option that makes sense on a public > server with lots of people being able to log in. On a personal laptop > it is overkill. There was a comedy album once that was called... > "Everything You Know Is Wrong". That describes Pam. The security > settings for various services are in totally different files and > locations than normal. > > Are you still booting from the install CD? The way you are running > sshd is not how the install manual suggests to do it. The webpage... > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=2 > shows that you can pass the kernel options... > > dosshd passwd=temppassword > > at bootup, where "temppassword" is a temporary password. This allows > you to log in by typing the temporary password. > > -- > Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
None of which would affect (failing) pty allocation... while I share the disdain for PAM, it doesn't likely do a whole lot to fix the problem at hand. -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
