On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 09:11:51AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > On 11/21/2014 09:04 AM, P J P wrote: > >>My point is that once we address this (most likely through some > >>configuration generation during VM setup), we can also switch > >>PermitRootLogin on. > > > You mean off? Or that we disable it by default and enable it while setting up a new VM? > > The latter. We have to install authorized_keys inside the VM > anyway, so we can touch sshd_config, too. Virt-builder has a new '--ssh-inject' feature (in F22 only). $ virt-builder fedora-20 --ssh-inject root would inject your current ssh key into the root account of the new VM. There are other variations, including ways to create a non-root user account, see: http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct