Re: About sshd(8) PermitRootLogin=no

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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
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