On Fri, 18 Jul 2014, James Keener wrote: > When permissions on /dev/tty are crw------- and owner root:root, ssh-add > will echo passwords to the terminal (sudo does not) and ssh fails with a > "Host key verification failed." error. I would expect that ssh can't successfully issue termios calls to turn off tty echo when /dev/tty isn't writable to the user. sudo will work because it is setuid root. There isn't much ssh can do with bad permissions on /dev/tty. -d _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev