Good point, this totally breaks anyone not using local authentication, I think based on that this feature change really needs to be blocked. On 16/12/14 08:14 AM, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 12:37:24 +0000 (UTC) > P J P <pj.pandit@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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. > > I think it is a really bad idea, it will break many things for me > personally and I am sure others also. this is because I set a root > password at install time but do not create a user, I then ssh to the > box and join it to my ipa domain for user authentication. I will now be > unable to do so. > > Dennis > -- > security mailing list > security@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/security > -- Kurt Seifried -- Red Hat -- Product Security -- Cloud PGP A90B F995 7350 148F 66BF 7554 160D 4553 5E26 7993
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