On 11/24/2014 01:57 PM, Tomas Mraz wrote: > On Po, 2014-11-24 at 12:37 +0000, P J P wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Please see >> -> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SSHD_PermitRootLogin_no >> >> Last week this was discussed in the FST meeting and on the >> fedora-devel list subsequently. General consensus seems to be that it >> is okay to disable remote 'root' login via sshd(8). Above feature >> request is for the same. >> >> If you have any comments/suggestions/inputs, please feel free share >> them or edit the feature page as required. > > For the ssh-inject feature you would need PermitRootLogin > without-password. Also I do not see as a risk to allow root login with > the public-key authentication so that might be a good compromise. > > The reason the root login with password was kept allowed was the support > for vnc installation without kickstart as it was previously impossible > to create regular user in anaconda. Now that anaconda allows to create > regular user accounts we could disable sshd root login with password. We > just need to properly advertise that. reference https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=89216 > > The only remaining problem is for systems which have been installed > previously and have only root login and someone upgrades them to new > Fedora release. Here the system would be made inaccessible by the > openssh-server rpm upgrade from the old Fedora to F22. > > I am afraid there is no easy solution for the problem above. > I think it's ok for upgrade between versions if it's promoted as a Fedora Feature. Petr -- Petr Lautrbach
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