Even if the PermitEmptyPasswords option is specified in sshd_config, auth-none authentication does not succeed for a user with an empty password. This is due to a simple coding error in auth-passswd.c.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 652 ***
Created attachment 427 [details] patch to auth-passwd.c in 3.7.1p1
Mass change of RESOLVED bugs to CLOSED