On Tue, 13 Jan 2015 17:09:16 +0000 (UTC) P J P <pj.pandit@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Dennis, > > > > On Tuesday, 13 January 2015 10:05 PM, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > > There is no consensus on that. > > Well, no opposition as such either. Sorry this is false. You got enough emails telling you this change is undesirable, that's the definition of opposition and means you have no _consensus_. Simo. > How is it done otherwise, > do we conduct votes to establish consensus, is that a usual practice? > > > I do not do enough installs that I use kickstart so can not put > > a key in place. On a freshly installed system I have to log in > > as root with a password to do configuration. I strongly suspect > > that I am not alone here. You need to talk to the anaconda team > > and work out a plan to deal with all the different options. > > up to and including having the current defaults exist when only a > > root account is configured with only a password for authentication. > > I suspect that to properly support making changes here it needs to > > be strongly tied into anaconda changes that manage the initial sshd > > config file. > True. I plan to talk to them about the proposed workflow changes; > One of which caters to the case wherein only 'root' user is needed. > > "Omission of such user account should prompt user if they wish to > enable remote 'root' login and set the parameter appropriately." OR > Other way could be to just enable remote 'root' login when no > non-root account is created by the user. > > Let's see, they might have other suggestions. > ---Regards > -Prasad > http://feedmug.com -- 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