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
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