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

[Frank de Bot]

Hi,

It sounds you have forgotten to mount /dev in the jail. You can consult 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/jails-build.html for all steps to do 
this.


Regards,

Frank de Bot

Dan Langille wrote:
> 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..
>