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 15:33 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> I normally would complain about taking options away from users, but
> as I
> typically use ssh for root *anyway*, I felt this wasn't appropriate
> (although I have a friend who never uses ssh keys, always
> password-over-ssh).
> 
> I would, however, ask that the config file have a commented out
> option
> that re-enables it, with a suitable text comment clearly saying
> "uncomment this to allow root passwords over ssh".
You are talking about the SSH daemon config file, right ? 

Sounds like a good ideam to me, independent on the end result of this
Anaconda related discussion so I suggest opening a RFE bug on the SSH
daemon with this suggestion or even outright sending patches for the
default config file. :)

> 
> Perhaps that comment might be a good place to mention ssh-copy-id ?
> 
> Such comments make the "best practices" much more discoverable
> without
> frustrating users who just want to make things work.
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