Re: ssh/scp without password

From: Ulrich Windl (Ulrich.Windl_at_RZ.Uni-Regensburg.DE)
Date: 04/23/04 

Date: 23 Apr 2004 16:35:38 +0200

Mikko Nahkola <mnahkola@trein.ntc.nokia.com> writes:

> In article <m3znafcw52.fsf@pc5234.klinik.uni-regensburg.de>, Ulrich Windl wrote:
> > Mikko Nahkola <mnahkola@trein.ntc.nokia.com> writes:
> >> In article <m34qsz8vuk.fsf@pc5234.klinik.uni-regensburg.de>, Ulrich Windl wrote:
> >> > Maybe one interesting thing in the recent HP-UX Secure Shell:
> >> > If you login with private key only, make sure the user's encrypted
> >> > password is something else than "*", because that doesn't work any
> >> > more (syslog says "user expired" then; it worked in previous versions
> >> > of HP Secure Shell however).
>
> >> Which version would this be? I'm trying to get A.03.71 from
> >> software.hp.com but the server doesn't understand me ... every time I
> >> click on the "receive for free" button, it complains about a "bad
> >> request".
>
> > I had this before: Either wait and retry, or use a different browser.
>
> This time no luck, I waited, tried a number of different
> OS/browser combinations, exchanged a lot of mail with the HP folks (who
> were not helpful at all, wanted me to go hunting for Internet Explorer
> for HP-UX) and all the while the same error ...
>
> However, I apparently did find the bug - non-ASCII7 characters in the
> information that the thing asks before letting you download anything.
> Once I hand-edited those out of the cookie, or removed software.hp.com
> from cookies altogether and took care to re-enter the data with careful
> misspellings to fit US-ASCII, it worked. And broke again if I did it
> right.

Those odd marks around letters in the "old Europe" countries aren't
tolerated it seems ;-) The question is: How does MS-IE do it?
(Personally I went to a Windows-Machine to download)

Regards,
Ulrich