On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 10:21:03 +1100 Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07Oct2019 01:00, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >On Sun, 06 Oct 2019 18:05:02 +0200 > >alciregi@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> It could it be related to this change: > >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/31/ChangeSet#Disable_Root_Password_Login_in_SSH > > > >As a side question --- I remember that this was the default for > >upstream OpenSSH since 2015, but was not adopted in Fedora because > >people who install Fedora on headless machines (or remotely) would > >have no other way of logging in after initial installation. So why > >the change of heart now, what happened to the headless login issue? > > Because one can generally set up a normal user, log in as them, then > su or sudo. Was this not possible back in 2015? I guess I am asking what technically changed between then and now, so that we didn't block root back then and we are doing it now? Best, :-) Marko _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
