[Dovecot] doveadm: Fatal: open(/dev/tty)

I received this message today, and remembered, you can't do that...

$ doveadm pw -s SHA512-CRYPT Enter new password: doveadm(dan): Fatal: open(/dev/tty) failed: No such file or directory </pre>

It seems if you have no tty, you can't create a password. Surely there is a better way to do this?

Looking at the code, it's trying to open the tty and turn off echo.

For the record: FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE-p3

And yes, there is no console. I'm attached to a FreeBSD jail from the host system, directly via the ezjail-admin console command.

# w 6:52PM up 18 days, 23:34, 0 users, load averages: 0.96, 0.57, 0.46 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT #

Ain't nobody there..

-- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/