diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 68811e63b..07c17486d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@
      fix memory leak of passed-in environment variables and connection
      context when new session message is malformed; bz#2003 from Bert.Wesarg
      AT googlemail.com
+   - djm@cvs.openbsd.org 2012/07/06 01:47:38
+     [ssh.c]
+     move setting of tty_flag to after config parsing so RequestTTY options
+     are correctly picked up. bz#1995 patch from przemoc AT gmail.com;
+     ok dtucker@
 
 20120704
  - (dtucker) [configure.ac openbsd-compat/bsd-misc.h] Add setlinebuf for
diff --git a/ssh.c b/ssh.c
index 3c376d0ff..3f61eb028 100644
--- a/ssh.c
+++ b/ssh.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $OpenBSD: ssh.c,v 1.369 2012/07/02 08:50:03 dtucker Exp $ */
+/* $OpenBSD: ssh.c,v 1.370 2012/07/06 01:47:38 djm Exp $ */
 /*
  * Author: Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>
  * Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>, Espoo, Finland
@@ -638,10 +638,6 @@ main(int ac, char **av)
 	/* Initialize the command to execute on remote host. */
 	buffer_init(&command);
 
-	if (options.request_tty == REQUEST_TTY_YES ||
-	    options.request_tty == REQUEST_TTY_FORCE)
-		tty_flag = 1;
-
 	/*
 	 * Save the command to execute on the remote host in a buffer. There
 	 * is no limit on the length of the command, except by the maximum
@@ -649,7 +645,6 @@ main(int ac, char **av)
 	 */
 	if (!ac) {
 		/* No command specified - execute shell on a tty. */
-		tty_flag = options.request_tty != REQUEST_TTY_NO;
 		if (subsystem_flag) {
 			fprintf(stderr,
 			    "You must specify a subsystem to invoke.\n");
@@ -670,22 +665,6 @@ main(int ac, char **av)
 		fatal("Cannot fork into background without a command "
 		    "to execute.");
 
-	/* Allocate a tty by default if no command specified. */
-	if (buffer_len(&command) == 0)
-		tty_flag = options.request_tty != REQUEST_TTY_NO;
-
-	/* Force no tty */
-	if (options.request_tty == REQUEST_TTY_NO || muxclient_command != 0)
-		tty_flag = 0;
-	/* Do not allocate a tty if stdin is not a tty. */
-	if ((!isatty(fileno(stdin)) || stdin_null_flag) &&
-	    options.request_tty != REQUEST_TTY_FORCE) {
-		if (tty_flag)
-			logit("Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated because "
-			    "stdin is not a terminal.");
-		tty_flag = 0;
-	}
-
 	/*
 	 * Initialize "log" output.  Since we are the client all output
 	 * actually goes to stderr.
@@ -721,6 +700,26 @@ main(int ac, char **av)
 	/* reinit */
 	log_init(argv0, options.log_level, SYSLOG_FACILITY_USER, !use_syslog);
 
+	if (options.request_tty == REQUEST_TTY_YES ||
+	    options.request_tty == REQUEST_TTY_FORCE)
+		tty_flag = 1;
+
+	/* Allocate a tty by default if no command specified. */
+	if (buffer_len(&command) == 0)
+		tty_flag = options.request_tty != REQUEST_TTY_NO;
+
+	/* Force no tty */
+	if (options.request_tty == REQUEST_TTY_NO || muxclient_command != 0)
+		tty_flag = 0;
+	/* Do not allocate a tty if stdin is not a tty. */
+	if ((!isatty(fileno(stdin)) || stdin_null_flag) &&
+	    options.request_tty != REQUEST_TTY_FORCE) {
+		if (tty_flag)
+			logit("Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated because "
+			    "stdin is not a terminal.");
+		tty_flag = 0;
+	}
+
 	seed_rng();
 
 	if (options.user == NULL)