X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: Is there a default ssh password if no Windows password is present? Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:09:57 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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? cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/