Re: [Vserver] openpty(): No such file

From: Oliver Heinz <oliver.heinz_at_schunk.net>
Date: Mon 20 Nov 2006 - 21:02:26 GMT
Message-Id: <200611202202.26439.oliver.heinz@schunk.net>

Am Montag, 20. November 2006 18:42 schrieb Herbert Poetzl:

> On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 06:16:32PM +0100, Oliver Heinz wrote:
> > Am Montag, 20. November 2006 10:29 schrieb Oliver Heinz:
> > > Am Sonntag, 19. November 2006 15:32 schrieb Rik Bobbaers:
> > > > might be a good idea!:)
> > > >
> > > > let me know if that fixes the problem. could you give me the grsec
> > > > config part of your kernel?
> >
> > Seems the listbot ate my first mail, but anyway: I just tested with
> > the old kernel 2.6.12.5-vs2.0 and the problem is still there, so i
> > hast to be util-vserver0.30.211 related.
> >
> > So definitely no grsec problem.
> >
> > Those old suse 9.0 platforms are doomed anyway, so if you don't
> > consider this a general problem we should leave it as it is. But if
> > you want to dig further into this issue just tell me what to to and i
> > am pleased to assist you.
>
> yes, please, especially the answer to the question:
> > > > >>>>>>> Does it have /dev/ptmx and a mounted /dev/pts? When you
> > > > >>>>>>> log in through ssh, what tty are you on?
>
> would be quite interesting ...

It's already somewhere further down that mail.

dakar:~ # ls -la /dev/ptmx
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 5, 2 Sep 23 2003 /dev/ptmx

dakar:~ # mount
/dev/hda2 on / type reiserfs (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)

you already commented on the legacy ttys.

Do you need other/more Information?

>
> also you could try to disable vlogin for that guest
> (daniel please comment on version/config option)

I need a little help on that, because to me it looks as if --vlogin is not
default and it seems not to be used in the scripts, is it?

TIA,
Oliver

>
> TIA,
> Herbert
>
> > Thanks so far,
> > Oliver
> >
> > > > tnx!
> > > >
> > > > Oliver Heinz wrote:
> > > > > Am Samstag, 18. November 2006 21:46 schrieb Herbert Poetzl:
> > > > >> On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 01:05:48PM +0100, Oliver Heinz wrote:
> > > > >>> Am Freitag, 17. November 2006 18:48 schrieb Oliver Heinz:
> > > > >>>> Am Freitag, 17. November 2006 17:49 schrieb Herbert Poetzl:
> > > > >>>>> On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 11:05:52AM +0100, Oliver Heinz wrote:
> > > > >>>>>> Am Donnerstag, 16. November 2006 13:11 schrieb Daniel Hokka
> > > > >
> > > > > Zakrisson:
> > > > >>>>>>> Oliver Heinz wrote:
> > > > >>>>>>>> Hello,
> > > > >>>>>>>>
> > > > >>>>>>>> yesterday I upgraded my development server from
> > > > >>>>>>>> vmlinuz-2.6.12.5-vs2.0 to 2.6.17.14-grsec2.1.9-vs2.0.2.1 and
> > > > >>>>>>>> util-vserver from util-vserver-0.30.210 to
> > > > >>>>>>>> util-vserver-0.30.211.
> > > > >>>>>>>>
> > > > >>>>>>>> All Debian/Ubuntu guests are running fine, but for the old
> > > > >>>>>>>> Suse9.0 guest when entering via vserver servername enter i
> > > > >>>>>>>> get an error:
> > > > >>>>>>>>
> > > > >>>>>>>> root@gobi:/usr/src/packages# vserver dakar enter vlogin:
> > > > >>>>>>>> openpty(): No such file or directory
> > > > >>>>>>>> root@gobi:/usr/src/packages#
> > > > >>>>>>>>
> > > > >>>>>>>> Any Idea what's wrong? Entering via ssh works fine, all
> > > > >>>>>>>> services are running, so it's not a major issue, just
> > > > >>>>>>>> annoing.
> > > > >>>>>>>
> > > > >>>>>>> Does it have /dev/ptmx and a mounted /dev/pts? When you log
> > > > >>>>>>> in through ssh, what tty are you on?
> > > > >>>>>>
> > > > >>>>>> dakar:~ # w
> > > > >>>>>>  10:56:59 up 1 day,  1:03,  2 users,  load average: 0.16,
> > > > >>>>>> 0.16, 0.29 USER     TTY        LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU
> > > > >>>>>> WHAT oheinz  ttyp1     10:28   11:22   0.10s  0.10s -bash
> > > > >>>>>> root     ttyp2     10:56    0.00s  0.04s  0.00s w
> > > > >>>>>
> > > > >>>>>     ~~~~~~~~~
> > > > >>>>> looks like legacy ptys .. haven't seen them
> > > > >>>>> for some time now, not sure that is related though ..
> > > > >>>>
> > > > >>>> I was wondering too, when I ssh to a real physical host with
> > > > >>>> suse 9.0 and kernel 2.4 I get ptys
> > > > >>>>
> > > > >>>>> what does /dev contain in your guest?
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>>  Just those few devices that are SuSE default ;-)
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> - I tried to attach the List but: Message body is too big and
> > > > >>> nobody approved it yet. Is there someting special you are
> > > > >>> interessted? ttys?pts?
> > > > >>
> > > > >> ahem, this is what your guest should actually have in its
> > > > >> /dev, nothing more ...
> > > > >>
> > > > >> # ls /dev
> > > > >> console  full  log=  null  ptmx  pts/  random  tty  urandom  zero
> > > > >>
> > > > >> maybe an additional hdv1, but that's it, everything
> > > > >> else is not required and reduces your guest's security
> > > > >> which is why the tools do not put stuff there besides
> > > > >> the entries listed above ...
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks for that advice, but this vserver is an internal
> > > > >  development platform for a real server, which (of course) does
> > > > > have all those /dev entries . So security in this guest is not an
> > > > > issue.
> > > > >
> > > > > But it probably is not a good idea to have all that static dev
> > > > > entries that are for 2.4 kernels running with a 2.6 vserver enabled
> > > > > kernel, idn't it.
> > > > >
> > > > > So I did remove all that crap, left only
> > > > >
> > > > > crw-------   1 root tty  5, 1 2006-11-19 15:14 console
> > > > > crw-rw-rw-   1 root root 1, 7 2005-07-12 14:14 full
> > > > > prw-------   1 root root    0 2006-11-19 15:14 initctl
> > > > > crw-rw-rw-   1 root root 1, 3 2005-07-12 14:14 null
> > > > > crw-rw-rw-   1 root tty  5, 2 2006-11-19 15:12 ptmx
> > > > > drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4096 2006-11-15 18:34 pts
> > > > > crw-rw-rw-   1 root root 1, 8 2005-07-12 14:14 random
> > > > > crw-rw-rw-   1 root tty  5, 0 2006-11-19 15:04 tty
> > > > > -rw-r--r--   1 root root  582 2006-11-19 15:13 tty10
> > > > > cr--r--r--   1 root root 1, 9 2006-11-15 18:34 urandom
> > > > > crw-rw-rw-   1 root root 1, 5 2005-07-12 14:14 zero
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > But now I get an:
> > > > > root@gobi:~# vserver dakar enter
> > > > > vlogin: ioctl(): Not a typewriter
> > > > >                                  root@gobi:~#
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > and login via ssh is now broken too :-(
> > > > > Nov 19 15:08:56 dakar sshd[1912]: error: openpty: No such file or
> > > > > directory Nov 19 15:08:56 dakar sshd[1912]: error: session_pty_req:
> > > > > session 0 alloc failed
> > > > >
> > > > > Should I check with an non grsec vserver-kernel? Maybe it's grsec
> > > > > related?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks so far,
> > > > > Oliver
> > > > >
> > > > >> best,
> > > > >> Herbert
> > > > >>
> > > > >>> TIA,
> > > > >>>  Oliver
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>>>> TIA,
> > > > >>>>> Herbert
> > > > >>>>>
> > > > >>>>>> dakar:~ # mount
> > > > >>>>>> /dev/hda2 on / type reiserfs (rw)
> > > > >>>>>> proc on /proc type proc (rw)
> > > > >>>>>> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)
> > > > >>>>>>
> > > > >>>>>> dakar:~ # ls -la /dev/ptmx
> > > > >>>>>> crw-rw-rw-    1 root     tty        5,   2 Sep 23  2003
> > > > >>>>>> /dev/ptmx
> > > > >>>>>>
> > > > >>>>>>
> > > > >>>>>> Thanks so far,
> > > > >>>>>> Oliver
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