Re: Abotu setting 'PermitRootLogin=no' in sshd_config

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> On Tuesday, 25 November 2014 8:53 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 09:56:59 -0500
> Simo Sorce wrote:
> 
>> We can install machine w/o user accounts, removing the ability to log
>> in as root via ssh means those machines will not be accessible.
> 
> This has been the reason this hasn't been changed the last few times
> someone proposed to change it. 
> 
> I don't know how many folks do installs with no user config, but it's
> definitely possible right now and that could mean they wouldn't be able
> to reach their instance. We could of course change that so creating a
> new user is forced, but I'm really not sure it's that much advantage. 
> 
>> If you want to remove root access that should be conditionally done at
>> firstboot only if a user account was created.
> 
> This seems a more reasonable place to look to change this, I agree. 


  True, this concern has been raised before. We need to ensure that user creates at least one non-root user account; firstboot is just the right place to ensure that.

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