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From: Mark Bradshaw <bradshaw@staff.crosswalk.com>
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Subject: OpenSSH key auth causes invalid logon
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 17:48:17 -0400
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Corinna,

I've noticed that OpenSSH, when doing key authentication, caused an invalid
logon.  If enough instances occurred the account being logged into was
locked.  This didn't usually happen when just logging in, but was more
common when scripting events.  Of course it's pretty common to use key auth
when scripting remote calls.

While digging I found that this invalid login occurs when OpenSSH tries the
"none" authentication method.  When I modified the code to just return 0 on
a none attempt the invalid login went away.  I can't think of a valid time
when "none" should work on a windows box.  Disabling it doesn't affect key
or password auth.  Can you think of any adverse effect to disabling "none"
under Cygwin?

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