Son of son of SSH & Cygwin; scp and sftp

[Harig, Mark A.]

> -----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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