Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin writes: > 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.
(2) turns out to have been a more pervasive problem with the mintty instance I tested from. Using a new instance the same fails as (1) occur. I'd be grateful if anyone who has switched to a Windows Hello Pin can try to reproduce and report, Thanks, ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: h...@inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail from me _always_ has a .sig like this -- mail without it is forged spam] The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. -- 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