On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 19:15 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 02:12:50PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: > > How does someone express strong disagreement to this change ? > > Posting here is a good start. You can also add a note in the FESCo ticket > for approval once one is filed, and if you are incredibly passionate you can > come to the FESCo meeting (although I'm hoping we can make those meetings > more efficient, so that's not a good place for back and forth -- if possible > we should work out the issues before the meeting). Ticket number ? > > This change makes it very hard to do necessary maintenance. I can > > understand blocking SSH login as root with password by default, but I do > > not understand what is the point of blocking console login as root. > > I assume that it's for a kiosk or public (or at least managed) lab > situation. It makes sense for that, but I'm not convinced of a benefit > otherwise, and I don't think that situation is the default.... I am not even sure it makes sense in a kiosk, unless people want to use "password" as their root password. But even if it made sense in that situation it is far from being a useful *default*. This kind of severely restricting measure is best left to hardening manuals. Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
