On Thu, 2012-04-26 at 15:33 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > I'm trying to switch from the openssh server to dropbear's server on > an embedded system, and I've run into one snag. I've enabled the > "allow blank password" feature, but dropbear still prompts for a > password on accounts that have blank passwords. That's "wrong" -- or > at least it's different than what openssh, telnetd, login do.
I've not been following dropbear development but a number of years ago, dropbear didn't support no-password login (as root for sure). I created a patch and submitted it to the dropbear list. Not sure if it (or something like it) was integrated. If it helps your investigation here's a link to the mailing list post with my patch although this was 3 years ago so not sure if/how much the code has changed: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.network.ssh.dropbear/845
