I got this message today:
$ doveadm pw -s SHA512-CRYPT Enter new password: doveadm(dan): Fatal: open(/dev/tty) failed: No such file or directory
It seems if you have no tty, you can’t create a password. Surely there is a better way to do this?
# w 7:21PM up 19 days, 4 mins, 0 users, load averages: 0.48, 0.77, 0.67 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT #
That’s on a FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE-p3 jail. To access that jail, I ssh’d to the jail host, then issued the the ‘ezjail-admin console’ command.
However, on a FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p6 jail, the results are slightly different. After issuing the ‘ezjail-admin console’ command, you see a tty:
# w 7:14PM up 43 days, 23:52, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT root pts/0 - 7:14PM - w #
Issuing the doveadm command gives much better results.
# doveadm pw -s SHA512-CRYPT Enter new password:
Seems OK there…
