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

From: Pascal Legrand (Pascal.Legrand_at_univ-orleans.fr)
Date: 03/29/04 

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 11:00:07 +0200

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> Hey everyone, got a strange question for you.
>
> 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?
did you compile ssh with a "password option" like "-with-md5-passwords" 

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