How to fix request failed on channel 0

Question

When I want to connect to my server like this

ssh -a username@my-server.de -p 22

it gives me two error messages:

PTY alloca         


        

Answer 1

PTY allocation request failed on channel 0

There is a limit of 256 pseudo terminals on a system. Maybe you have an application that is leaking pseudo terminals. Use

lsof /dev/pts/*

to see what processes have open pseudo-terminals

shell request failed on channel 0

I was getting this error (without PTY allocation error). It turns out that one of my applications (QtCreator 3.0.?) was leaking Zombie processes. Other users were able to log in so I might have been hitting my per user process quota (if there is such a thing). I've updated to QtCreator 3.3. So far so good.

Answer 2

just found out, what was the problem in my case (provider strato): I had the same problem with output "shell request failed on channel 0" in the end.

I have to use the master password with the web-domain name as login. (In German www.wunschname.de, where wunschname is your web-address.)

A ssh login with sftp-user names and the corresponding passwords is without success. (Although scp and sftp works with these sftp users!)