Re: dropbear still requires password when password is blank

2012-05-09 Thread Matt Johnston
Hi, Somehow I missed this patch and also a similar one from Chris Metcalf in 2010 :( Sorry about that. Anyway, I've now committed the same functionality for the next release (in Mercurial now). Cheers, Matt On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:54:28AM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: On Thu, 2012-04-26 at

Re: dropbear still requires password when password is blank

2012-04-26 Thread Matt Johnston
Hi, When I ssh to the openssh server using an account with an empty password, I see that that the auth method none succeeds. When I ssh to the dropbear server, it ends up using auth method password with an empty password. Can somebody lend me a clue as to what I need to do to make dropbear

Re: dropbear still requires password when password is blank

2012-04-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-04-26, Matt Johnston m...@ucc.asn.au wrote: I assume what OpenSSH is doing is looking whether the user has a blank password at the first none request, and sending success straight away. Ah, I had assumed that the process started out with the server sending a list of acceptable auth