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Subject: RE: Is there a default ssh password if no Windows password is present?
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:09:57 -0000
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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
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