Re: About sshd(8) PermitRootLogin=no

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Hello,
----- Original Message -----
> > 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.
> 
>   Ummn for Fedora upgrades, maybe in OpenSSH %post install section we could
>   display a bold warning message about this change, so that the user is
>   aware of it. This message could be removed in the subsequent updates to
>   the OpenSSH package.

That’s work for the user, and probably even for the programmer more work than automatically detecting the situation and not changing the configuration.  “Hello, this is a program telling you to do manually something a program could easily do” is rarely the best answer.
    Mirek
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