Greetings, Henry S. Thompson! > 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: > 1) If from my machine I do > ssh -o PreferredAuthentications=password localhost > or > ssh -o PreferredAuthentications=password [me]@[host] > or > ssh -o PreferredAuthentications=password U-[HOST]\\[me]@[host] > I get "permission denied". > 2) If I try any of those from another machine, it hangs (but works > w/o the "-o PreferredAuthentications=password", i.e. using a > key). By 'hangs' I mean that having typed the PIN and Enter, > nothing happens, including no output if I include -v -v -v. > Weirder still, if I try using strace, communication happens and I > get "permission denied" > I have reinstalled openssh, removed the cygsshd service, re-run > ssh-host-config and restarted the service to no avail. > I only need password login to install new keys, and obviously there > are workarounds for that, but if there's just something I'm missing > I'd like to fix it. > Are there other things I need to worry about having switched to using > a PIN? Did you try to `passwd -R` as explained in https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-setuid-overview ? -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Monday, September 13, 2021 20:17:57 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
