Is there a default ssh password if no Windows password is present?

[Jerry Moody]

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, and I came up empty
searching the web without knoweldge that the keyword even existed.  Thanks
for the pointer.


Jerry                                          ><IXOYE>



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