Problem with dropbear and uClibc / busybox

[Brent Davidson]

Well, I mamanged to get the hang up problem fixed, but now I'm having 
another issue...  Once I log in, I get the following in the log:

[326] Jan 03 20:39:46 pty_allocate: openpty: No such file or directory
[326] Jan 03 20:39:46 no pty was allocated, couldn't execute

(Yes, I know the date is wrong, I haven't set that yet.)

What am I missing now?

Thanks,
-Brent

Rich Ireland wrote:

> Brett,
>
> I had the same trouble not long ago.  Your system doesn't have enough 
> randomness in it.  Try changing the dropbear config to use 
> /dev/urandom instead of dev/random.
>
> See this thread:
> http://codepoet.org/lists/uclibc/2005-February/011151.html
>
> Brent Davidson wrote:
>
>> I have been working on a custom embedded system with uClibc and 
>> busybox and want to add dropbear for sshd functions, but I have run 
>> into a problem.
>>
>> dropbear runs fine, but when I try to connect remotely or with 
>> dbclient admin at localhost the server proccess logs "Child connection 
>> from 127.0.0.1" and then the whole process freezes.  I am never 
>> presented a login prompt.
>>
>> I am compiling dropbear 0.44 with the MULTI=1 option under the 
>> pre-built uClibc development environment.
>
>