I believe sshd will not allow login without both a password and home directory. The second requirement means you must start a login shell as a given user to create their home directory. This is a way of controlling which accounts can login remotely.
Cygwin/Windows doesn't directly support su as UNIXies do. Normally you wouldn't allow direct remote login as an administrator/root, you'd force login as an ordinary user and then su. In this case, you don't have that option, atleast not easily, perhaps use of a dedicated remote account with a password would be appropriate, otherwise just use the password on the administrator account for both. I'm not sure if this would work with Cygwin's sshd, but I believe you can disable password login and use public/private keys to authenticate. If their is no password, I am not sure if sshd will allow login based on key authentication. Brett On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 19:43:14 +0100 (CET), "Ordinary Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I have Windows XP set up with just a single account > i.e. an Admin account with no admin password. I have > installed cygwin in this account. > > Is it possible that this cygwin sshd > server runs with a password i.e. I want to maintain > the Windows XP without a password, while the cygwin > sshd server should have a password (for anyone trying > to connect to it.) > > I tried setting the cygwin password, and after that it > seemed that my windows account also required the > password to log in. > I have tried searching this topic online but I dont > think I get anything. > > Thank you for taking your time to respond to this. > Regards, > O.O. > > > > ___________________________________ > Yahoo! Messenger: chiamate gratuite in tutto il mondo > http://it.messenger.yahoo.com > > > -- > 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/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------- Brett C. Serkez, Techie -- 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/
