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Make it 666. There's no point giving execution permission to that device.

Stéphane Chazelas
– Stéphane Chazelas

2012-09-23 07:56:55 +00:00
Commented Sep 23, 2012 at 7:56
OK, if you say so :)

Karel Bílek
– Karel Bílek

2012-09-23 12:50:55 +00:00
Commented Sep 23, 2012 at 12:50
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I have similar problem (debug1: read_passphrase: can't open /dev/tty: No such device or address) but chmod 666 /dev/tty does not help. It works with my user, but after I switched to another user with su it fails.

dma_k
– dma_k

2013-03-28 20:31:54 +00:00
Commented Mar 28, 2013 at 20:31
@dma_k I had this problem as well. The fix was to run su with -s /bin/bash

EM0
– EM0

2017-12-24 18:54:57 +00:00
Commented Dec 24, 2017 at 18:54

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