Re: Intention to dropping the the "Allow SSH root login with password" option from the installer GUI

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On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 03:37:54PM +0200, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote:
> On 30.04.2021 15:21, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >Not everything is exposed to the internet.  Please leave the option,
> >disabled by default and with a suitable warning if you like.
> 
> Why are you still using passwords in 2021? SSH keys are much more
> secure and easier to use.

Because distributing SSH keys to temporary VMs is hard?  Not
everything is a long-lived machine connected to the internet.

Rich.

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