L A Walsh writes: > On 2021/09/15 12:53, Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin wrote: >> frankly, it seems like a bug, and >> if Microsoft succeeds in moving more people to using PINs for login, >> it will surely begin to bite others... > ---- > > Isn't the idea of using the PIN login to get rid of the use (and the > ability) to use passwords?
Indeed. Just not clear if this was _intended_ to make public key and gssapi the only authentication routes in via ssh... Further to Brian Inglis's suggestion to see what Windows OpenSSH has to offer, the answer is, not much. There are some open issues which include discussion of possible Windows Hello into Windows OpenSSH [1], but they haven't made much headway for some time... ht [1] https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/1804#issuecomment-850500721 -- 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
