[NTLUG:Discuss] SSH Confusion

[Chris Cox]

MadHat wrote:
> On Mar 1, 2004, at 6:40 PM, Chris Cox wrote:
> 
>> MadHat wrote:
>>
>>> The issue has something to do with the TTYs (more specifically PTYs) 
>>> as far as I can tell.  Anyone know of a way to see what PTYs are 
>>> available for allocation or what PTYs the OS think are in use?
>>
>>
>> /proc should have the info on what are in use (can be seen with ps).
>> Number of ptys defaults to 256 (or was it 128?) in the kernel config.
> 
> 
> Well, it is 256, but it appears that they are not getting released, but 
> they are not showing up in ps, but sshd can't allocate them.
> 

Maybe your sshd is looking for old style pty's instead??
Does it work somewhat... or not at all??