Hi,

I just stumbled upon the fact that when I deny a user who logs in using a public key an interactive login using the no-pty argument in the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file,
I still get an interactive shell (kind of). Despite the fact that
"PTY allocation request failed on channel 0"

This could be reproduced on an up to date debian system (6.0.8) as well as on Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS

OpenSSH_5.5p1 Debian-6+squeeze3
OpenSSH_5.9p1 Debian-5ubuntu1.1, OpenSSL 1.0.1 14 Mar 2012
OpenSSH_6.0p1 Debian-4, OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013
OpenSSH_6.4p1, OpenSSL 1.0.1 14 Mar 2012

Best regards,
Bastian Mueller

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bbb@kilchoman:~$ ssh user@host
PTY allocation request failed on channel 0
Linux hostname 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Oct 3 03:59:20 UTC 2011 x86_64

cat ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
no-pty ssh-rsa AAAA..5KS3+Q==

ssh -v     
OpenSSH_5.5p1 Debian-6+squeeze3, OpenSSL 0.9.8o 01 Jun 2010
usage: ssh [-1246AaCfgKkMNnqsTtVvXxYy] [-b bind_address] [-c cipher_spec]
           [-D [bind_address:]port] [-e escape_char] [-F configfile]
           [-I pkcs11] [-i identity_file]
           [-L [bind_address:]port:host:hostport]
           [-l login_name] [-m mac_spec] [-O ctl_cmd] [-o option] [-p port]
           [-R [bind_address:]port:host:hostport] [-S ctl_path]
           [-W host:port] [-w local_tun[:remote_tun]]
           [user@]hostname [command]

ps
  PID TTY          TIME CMD
 1191 ?        00:00:00 sshd
 1192 ?        00:00:00 bash
 1232 ?        00:00:00 ps

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