On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 16:54:09 +0000 (UTC) P J P <pj.pandit@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > > On Wednesday, 14 January 2015 8:01 PM, Simo Sorce wrote: > > Ok, I state my opposition to without-password too inequivocably > > here. Mostly because it is just the same as 'no', given there is no > > way, in a regular install to seed a key into the root account. > > > > Except you have no mechanism to inject a key at installation time, > > > Sure. Could you please elaborate how would you like this key to be > injected into the 'root' account? Feature page does have a listed > workflow change: > > "Anaconda installer OR maybe OpenSSH package needs to create > initial set of authentication keys for 'root' user." Sorry, but what is the point of this operation, wrt auth with keys issue ? > It'll help if you could add your details to the ether pad, for > later reference. > > here -> https://www.piratepad.ca/p/ssh-remoterootloigin > > > > The intention may be not, then I'll call it poor execution/planning > > and still oppose this move *at this time* unless there is proof we > > address the usability problem first. > > We are still in the proposal state, not execution yet. IMO, before > we request the respective upstream developers to provide the needed > functionality, we need to state and agree on the usability > requirements. That'll be useful in the evaluation of the feature by > the FES committee too. Otherwise it's a chicken-and-egg problem. It *is* a chicken-egg issue to some degree. > I'd request all(those who are opposing) too describe their > requirements in the etherpad page above. Being able to authenticate as root right after installation would be the requirement for me. 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
