Can't ssh to cygwin after switching sign-in to Windows Hello PIN

[Henry S. Thompson]

Brian Inglis writes:

> On 2021-09-12 16:05, Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin wrote:
>> Running cygwin 3.2.0-1 on Windows 10 Pro 21H1
>> Since changing my login from local User to Windows Hello PIN, I can't
>> ssh in to my machine using a password:  neither the PIN nor my old
>> password work:
>> ...
>
> Checkout whatever you can find out from Microsoft about connecting to
> Windows using Windows OpenSSH and Hello.

Thanks, will do.

> You may have to use SSH as intended:
> ...

As noted in my original post, I can and have set up public-key-based
connections.

The problem arose because my normal approach to getting my public key
from new Machine A to old Machine B is, once and once only, to use
password-authentication to move the public key.

I raised the issue here, even though I have alreadly worked around it,
in case there were others for whom public-key was unfamiliar or
otherwise problematic, and, frankly, because 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...

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