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RE: Son of son of SSH & Cygwin; scp and sftp
- From: "Harig, Mark A." <maharig at idirect dot net>
- To: "Stephen C. Biggs" <yyyyy50 at hotpop dot com>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 14:18:59 -0400
- Subject: RE: Son of son of SSH & Cygwin; scp and sftp
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen C. Biggs [mailto:yyyyy50@hotpop.com]
> Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2002 10:37 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Son of son of SSH & Cygwin; scp and sftp
>
>
> I'm having some pretty weird problems here...
>
> I was just able to access my ssh shell with my
> alternate user if I use a blank password and
> both PermitEmptyPasswords and
> PasswordAuthentication == yes.
>
My guess is that you don't want this. It's likely that
ssh is still failing the encrypted key handshaking, but
is simply accepting the empty password. Run 'ssh -v <server IP>'
to verify this.
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