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.
I experienced something similar once, because I copied a new fstab over the default installed one. Be sure to have this line in /etc/fstab: devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
