On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 10:58 AM Stefan Baur <x2go-m...@baur-itcs.de> wrote:
That sounds like the total opposite - allowing login without a password. > > Now, if there was a flag PASSWD_NOTPERMITTED or something like that, > then we'd be able to emulate what can be done on Linux with "passwd -l > username" and an ssh key file. > You are correct; "password not required" != "password not permitted." I don't think Windows natively supports password-free logons using only key files (but I might be wrong about that). In any case, I'm not sure it's needed to support this scenario. Just set a very long/random/complex password on the account. Regards, Bill -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
