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

przemek klosowski via devel <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 21 May 2021 17:13:05 -0400



    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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