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

[Dan Langille]

On 2013-10-22 14:54, Frank de Bot wrote:
> 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..

> 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.

Thanks Frank.  /dev is mounted.

In the jail:

# ls /dev
fd      log     null    ptmx    pts     random  stderr  stdin   stdout  
urandom zero

 From the jail host:

$ mount | grep myjail | grep dev
devfs on /usr/jails/myjail/dev (devfs, local, multilabel)
fdescfs on /usr/jails/myjail/dev/fd (fdescfs)

Dovecot, Postfix, & Bacula are running fine.


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