Re: F35 Change: Drop the the "Allow SSH root login with password" option from the installer GUI (Self-Contained Change proposal)

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On 5/15/21 11:53 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
Creating a non-root user account, possibly with admin rights (all
possible from within Anaconda) would seem like a safer option for
accasional/emergency password based access to such machines over SSH.

I don't see, how this would any safer than directly using "root".
in many environments such user account is federated (kerberos/AD/NIS/whatever), so it can be managed more easily than a bunch of roots. Plus there's some accountability as to who did what.
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