X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 sourceware.org E769B3858437 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=cygwin.com; s=default; t=1632219156; bh=WHXQuPwwX27vVqAvu9ApE9+M6+ZDxSFrjfq2JgllUTw=; h=To:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:List-Id:List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive:List-Post:List-Help:List-Subscribe:From:Reply-To:Cc: From; b=TqE2UtibBHqkTKCLPjZOqBAjwg+T995ewtczgnTu+JSiy8OVaV5vCrKL4xrU1h9zE qIdDuLsW3cHLgD7zr09K7WSDCnr3pubixNUxK6wwqtSMpJhlmo7+YQxvW72LhZtD3u nKJsqQR0xjHZENO/Kgz0XZJMoFidQTZXPvWGkkQ4= X-Original-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 sourceware.org DE63A3858C3A To: L A Walsh Subject: Re: Can't ssh to cygwin after switching sign-in to Windows Hello PIN References: <74a78044-5ddd-c2f0-1d1b-bdb092a8c2b2 AT SystematicSw DOT ab DOT ca> <61485B73 DOT 1090402 AT tlinx DOT org> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 11:11:22 +0100 In-Reply-To: <61485B73.1090402@tlinx.org> (L. A. Walsh's message of "Mon\, 20 Sep 2021 02\:59\:15 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) XEmacs/21.5-b34 (linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Edinburgh-Scanned: at seine.is.ed.ac.uk X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL, SPF_HELO_PASS, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , From: "Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin" Reply-To: "Henry S. Thompson" Cc: "cygwin AT cygwin DOT com" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: cygwin-bounces+archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT cygwin DOT com Sender: "Cygwin" L A Walsh writes: > On 2021/09/15 12:53, Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin wrote: >> frankly, it seems like a bug, and >> if Microsoft succeeds in moving more people to using PINs for login, >> it will surely begin to bite others... > ---- > > Isn't the idea of using the PIN login to get rid of the use (and the > ability) to use passwords? Indeed. Just not clear if this was _intended_ to make public key and gssapi the only authentication routes in via ssh... Further to Brian Inglis's suggestion to see what Windows OpenSSH has to offer, the answer is, not much. There are some open issues which include discussion of possible Windows Hello into Windows OpenSSH [1], but they haven't made much headway for some time... ht [1] https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/1804#issuecomment-850500721 -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht AT inf DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail from me _always_ has a .sig like this -- mail without it is forged spam] The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple