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

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On Fri, 2021-04-30 at 15:23 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 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.
What about creating an admin user instead ? It's effectively the same
ammount of clicks - instead of setting a root password and checking the
"Allow SSH root login with password" checkbox, create a regular user
and check the "make this user an admin" checkbox.

Regular users, including users with admin (sudo/wheel) privileges, can
of course still login with password via SSH just fine.
> 
> Rich.
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