Hi, Somehow I missed this patch and also a similar one from Chris Metcalf in 2010 :( Sorry about that.
Anyway, I've now committed the same functionality for the next release (in Mercurial now). Cheers, Matt On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:54:28AM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > On Thu, 2012-04-26 at 15:33 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > > I'm trying to switch from the openssh server to dropbear's server on > > an embedded system, and I've run into one snag. I've enabled the > > "allow blank password" feature, but dropbear still prompts for a > > password on accounts that have blank passwords. That's "wrong" -- or > > at least it's different than what openssh, telnetd, login do. > > I've not been following dropbear development but a number of years ago, > dropbear didn't support no-password login (as root for sure). I created > a patch and submitted it to the dropbear list. Not sure if it (or > something like it) was integrated. > > If it helps your investigation here's a link to the mailing list post > with my patch although this was 3 years ago so not sure if/how much the > code has changed: > > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.network.ssh.dropbear/845 > >
