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Subject: RE: Is there a default ssh password if no Windows password is present?
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From: Jerry Moody <jamoody AT us DOT ibm DOT com>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:51:59 -0500
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DaveK wrote:
>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?

Excellent pointer, but MS
(http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/reskit/c16621675.mspx)
 seems to say this is true for XP Pro only and I'm running XP Home with the
very latest fixes.  Did this get into an XP Home fixpack perhaps?

Jerry                                          ><IXOYE>


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