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

dropbear still requires password when password is blank

2012-04-26 Thread Grant Edwards
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

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