Re: SSH and login without password (not passwordless login)

From: Darren Tucker (dtucker_at_dodgy.net.au)
Date: 03/26/04 

Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 01:12:14 +0000 (UTC)

In article <3cc24857.0403250526.540bc83a@posting.google.com>,
Giovani <giovanni_flippy@yahoo.com> wrote:
>I have an account that has no password (yes, please ignore that this
>is really bad). When I try to ssh or scp to it I get the password
>prompt, but if I just hit enter the response is "permission denied,
>please try again." If I break out of the connection in some way or
>hit space then enter it lets me in.
>
>Is there an sshd config option that controls this?

RTFM. If you're using OpenSSH (you didn't say, but it looks like it)
then "man sshd_config". 

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