Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Nov 23 16:09, Dave Korn wrote: >> Jerry Moody wrote: >> > Is there a default ssh password if no Windows password is present? When I >> > attempt to ssh into a WinXP machine with no Windows account password, I >> > still get prompted for a password and I can't seem to guess what it is >> > (null, anonymous, etc don't seem to work). I have set up autentication >> > keys and ssh is successful, but I want to be certain that there isn't a >> > default password that I don't know about which would open my system up to >> > the world. >> >> You aren't allowed to log in to a passwordless account from the network in >> any version of Windows since XP. Is that perhaps the problem? > >...or the default setting of sshd: > > PermitEmptyPasswords no
I believe "PermitEmptyPasswords no" is the solution. Unfortunately, this keyword doesn't show in Cygwin's man pages for sshd, and I came up empty searching the web without knoweldge that the keyword even existed. Thanks for the pointer. Jerry ><IXOYE> -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/