[plug] PPPD/SSH for VPN

Matt Kemner zombie at wasp.net.au
Tue Oct 10 12:37:06 WST 2000


On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Nathan Alberti wrote:

> When executing PPPD remotley ie via SSH i get the error:
> 
> root at master:~# ssh -l vpn slave sudo /usr/sbin/pppd
> /usr/sbin/pppd: no device specified and stdin is not a tty

If you specify to ssh a command to run, by default it will not 
allocate a tty on the remote system.  To override that default, specify
the -t parameter to ssh

ie

ssh -t -l vpn slave sudo /usr/sbin/pppd

 - Matt




More information about the plug mailing list