On Mon, 2019-10-07 at 02:53 +0200, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > 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? Please, read the whole fedora change page. It answers all your questions. You can always install public keys for root during kickstart (it might not have been that easy before) or allow password root logins from Anaconda (which is new feature in F31). Regards, -- Jakub Jelen Senior Software Engineer Security Technologies Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ 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
