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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT) Description of problem: Yesterday I upgraded some machines to openssh2.9p2. Using ssh-agent bash ssh-add ssh <url> Everything works as expected provided public key logon works. however today I had to connect to a site that didn't have my public key installed. Instead when I do ssh <site> I get: You have no controlling tty. Cannot read passphrase. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): openssl00.9.6-9 openssh-* 2.9p2-8.7 glibc-* 2.2.4-19 util-linux-2.11f-11.7.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: openssh 2.9p2 upgraded from ftp.mirror.ac.uk mirror of update.redhat.com. (I also upgraded glibc, nscd and util-linux at the same time. All other updates have been applied previously and the problem was not seen until today) 1. Ctrl-Alt-F1 (To get to a console) 2. Login (not as root) 3. ssh <somehost> Actual Results: You have no controlling tty. Cannot read passphrase. Expected Results: loginname@<somehost>'s password: (Works in an xterm) Additional info: The following works correctly: Ctrl-Alt-F1 (for a tty) ssh-agent bash ssh-add (enter passphrase for private key) ssh <somehost> Provided the private key allows login. (always works in an xterm) Everything works correctly when logged in as root: This implies it is a permissions problem: When logged in as tim /dev/tty1 has permissions: crw--w---- 1 tim tty 4 1 Oct 18 14:10 /dev/tty1 however changing this to mode 666 crw-rw-rw- does not fix the problem. Doing an ssh from a host that I have ssh into (with agent forwarding disabled) does bring up the "tim@<hostname>'s password: " dialog. tty = /dev/pty/0 with the same 640 permissions. I have confirmed this on both the other systems I have console access to that I upgraded yesterday. (One does not have nscd installed so this can probably be eliminated - I didn't expect it to be the cause anyway :-) )
I have now discovered that this appears to be a problem in util-linux-2.11f-11.7.1 as I have just upgraded just this package on a system running openssh-2.5.2p2-5 which worked previously and this problem occurs. Note that you have to log out and then log back in after upgrading before this problem occurs. If you are logged in before upgrading util-linux then everything works until you log out.
Created attachment 34382 [details] Backs out one of the changes made to login.c
The patch to login.c backs out one of the changes made to login.c between util-linux-2.10s and util-linux-2.11f and resolves this issue.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 54741 ***