Re: Is there a default ssh password if no Windows password is present?

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

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

http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#RTFM could be helpful.


Corinna

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