ssh with blank root password doesn't work otb

[ashleysommer]

This tweak here forces openssh to use PAM auth for cleartext passwords, and this tweak here causes PAM to allow null passwords through the pam_unix.so auth module.

Unfortunately, out of the box, the Angstrom root user does not have a null password, he has NO password, a subtle difference and the user gets a password authentication issue when trying to log in through ssh with a null password.

This stackexchange question here provides an answer to the problem. (See the update at the bottom of the first answer).

/etc/shadow needs to have the encrypted value for null password saved for the root user. For example:

root:U6aMy0wojraho:13721:0:99999:7:::

When I add this to my /etc/shadow file, I can log in with no problem now through ssh.

[kraj]

is this still an issue ?