ssh Server refused to allocate pty

[newbenji]

I just installed a new server and got through the most problems with the livecd.

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-880149.html

But still have 1 problem.

I cant ssh to my server.

Well i can ssh but cant login.
I get the Server refused to allocate pty..
I found a minor solution but its not optimal

here is mount before the solution

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rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
/dev/sda3 on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,barrier=1,data=ordered)
none on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
rc-svcdir on /lib64/rc/init.d type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=1024k,mode=755)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=506576,mode=755)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,gid=5,mode=600)
shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)

then i make mount /dev/pts as root

my fstab is here

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none     /proc   proc   defaults
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=600 0 0

# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
#  use almost no memory if not populated with files)
shm         /dev/shm   tmpfs      nodev,nosuid,noexec   0 0

then mount look like this

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rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
/dev/sda3 on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,barrier=1,data=ordered)
none on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
rc-svcdir on /lib64/rc/init.d type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=1024k,mode=755)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=506576,mode=755)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,gid=5,mode=600)
shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=600)

And then i can login through my ssh

But i dont think its good solution make the mount each time i start the machine. So any good advice will be welcome.

[newbenji]

Really noone can help here
well the solution for now is a file in local.d
with
mount devpts /dev/pts -t devpts


that is a soluition for now but i dont think its optimal.

[lostinspace2011]

There is a better solution to edit /etc/fstab and include an entry rather than manually mounting this after every boot.