Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: Disallow Empty Password By Default

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On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 07:02:08AM -0700, John M. Harris Jr wrote:
> On Thursday, December 5, 2019 5:41:44 AM MST Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
...snip...
> > In common usage, very few people encrypt their home directories
> > separately from their basic disk image. It makes system management for
> > administrators or even a local root user very awkward. I could see it
> > for home directories in "/home", and it would only cost SSH key based
> > access, not ordinary password or Kerberos ticket based login. But it
> > sounds quite risky and destabilizing, much as the "kill dangling
> > processes when people log out". That  caused a lot of shock when it
> > was activated by default and started killing processes with no
> > logging. Let's not repeat a surprise like that and avoid killing SSH
> > key access by default.
> 
> A bit off topic, but where is "kill danging processes when people log out" 
> set? I've not experienced that anywhere.

It's set in /etc/systemd/logind.conf, but it defaults to off in fedora. 

It was enabled for a short time in rawhide, then disabled.

kevin

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