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Subject: Re: Is there a default ssh password if no Windows password is present?
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On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 04:30:59PM -0500, Jerry Moody wrote:
>Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>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
>
>I believe "PermitEmptyPasswords no" is the solution.  Unfortunately,
>this keyword doesn't show in Cygwin's man pages for sshd,

Try the man pages for the file that you'd have to modify:  sshd_config.

cgf

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