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Re: Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated because stdin is not a terminal.


Indeed!  It turns out I was using c:\WINDOWS\System32\ssh.exe, which I have
no idea how it got there...  I installed openssh and the problem was fixed. 
Thanks!

Just out of curiosity, how does a program check if stdin is a "terminal"? 
My xterm looks like a terminal to me but apparently the windows version of
ssh.exe couldn't figure that out...

Peter


Christopher Faylor-8 wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 12:10:35PM -0800, peter360 wrote:
>>I just installed cygwin/X.    My system is:
>>
>>$ uname -a
>>CYGWIN_NT-5.1 AGAINSTSTONE-LX 1.5.24(0.156/4/2) 2007-01-31 10:57 i686
Cygwin
>>
>>
>>I start the X server using the included startxwin.bat file.  In the xterm
>>window this is what I got
>>$ ssh destination.host
>>Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated because stdin is not a terminal.
>>...
>>
>>ssh asks me for password but as I type the password echoes into the
terminal
>>window!  I assume this is related to the warning message about not being
>>able to allocate Pseudo terminal.  But why?  Why is my stdin not a
terminal? 
>>Anybody has a clue?
> 
> Yep.  You have a non-cygwin tool in there somewhere (ssh, maybe?) which
> doesn't
> understand cygwin's ptys.
> 
> cgf
> 
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