-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 07:11:27 +0000 (UTC) P J P <pj.pandit@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > Sshd(8) daemon by default allows remote users to login as root. > > 1. Is that really necessary? > 2. Lot of users use their systems as root, without even creating a > non-root user. Such practices need to be discouraged, not allowing > remote root login could be useful in that. > > Does it make sense to disable remote root login by default? If so, do > we need to just report it to the maintainer or it would be treated as > a feature? I think its a bad idea, but I say so as a user that when installing a new system, especially a remove vm will log in as root via ssh and join the machine post install to my ipa domain. Dennis -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJUcn9WAAoJEH7ltONmPFDRAwQP/36BhjlPb8AbNKzpZvuIcIX4 Sn+zTceuaaAwBYLIiHzqB7pQ7992Y3ka2V7ViWVcgmEbfgcVbm2roXQwHKN2IRGY e6xy+Tji0nt3vpbI+nvVVH3zWBMsIn+iy6YmddpzTCDNQVFtJBe/NRwNjKlqEg5A mXsPY/H0g20tv5SgWMzsTnbPOYRTEouLpCR7fUsEB5vifBjAmwHolPJ5IfiMIXg8 ese7JVE1UMfB6e2+CrkproC5lxVgmNASx/+6wgKKXJKVM8kD338Iy8zS3rWZpPOF zBModm0lgIF3kBDV9rpJARAo7Loj1EF9c/Dgv4OwzAcwsLWc8AxhHTK5Mle5T16Q 2WXteZBi9cJxdOK+n9lYWJDYN+NvjFViHFBY65ZKFcj95bu2UQy0dQtygtUJuv5C SC7MizpH1p/6BEwDnUmydk3PZ8m1zW1VExTRrkk/8uyjuxvBhMkQhrTB8dXQEwAO ReISOpEA7lyRlXH0v6SkKgQ2XST1nceR1Qt+lgyBksdXGVZ6Qgk1De2jV0230i44 lY0JfqgTwlg9dyRq3XQ4c9LteA53m2XICWrctcxeoJ3RxcO01UGbhwJ/bSNUVe+p c55FlsJm9oQqj28+0BD5kMeQAVoCtsW2iuk8htoLl3wbkn5KaRZPpCuTe4L5Z6Vy N5ZPvFiY2KbI5eZKz2fm =DRcf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
