[PLUG] ssh / window manager interaction land mine.

[Russell Senior]

>>>>> "RE" == Russell Evans <russell-evans at qwest.net> writes:

RSS> The -f doesn't seem to help.  And it does prompt, but not
RSS> anywhere I can talk to it.  The prompts show up on the virtual
RSS> tty, but my keystrokes somehow never make it to ssh.

RE> force a tty? ssh -tfX

No obvious change.  With those options, I looked at lsof for the ssh
process and found fd0 was /dev/null.  It did open /dev/tty as fd4.
Not sure: a) if ssh is listening to that for a password; or b) how to
talk to that tty if it is.


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