On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 04:30:59PM -0500, Jerry Moody wrote: >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,
Try the man pages for the file that you'd have to modify: sshd_config. cgf -- 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/
