Once upon a time, Björn Persson <Bjorn(a)xn--rombobjrn-67a.se> said:
Chris Adams wrote:
> If the admin has done one thing to lock down the system, then they can
> do another (removing the sulogin --force addition).
How do you propose to ensure that the admin is made aware of the need
to do that?
The same way as any change - documentation.
Experienced sysadmins won't just instinctively know that in this
new
release of this particular distribution they need to run this special
command to prevent boot problems from granting root access to whoever
can type on the keyboard.
It's not a "special command", it's just removing an RPM that has the
sulogin overrides, or just set a root password (this change only affects
the case of a locked root account). Experienced sysadmins should
already know that the OS changes from release to release. I don't
install a brand new OS and give it to users without checking it out
myself (and reading at least the release notes).
This is NOT some new "hole" - out of the box, Fedora already allows
someone with console access to get root access (in less convenient, but
more confusing, ways). As noted in the change proposal, this change is
already in Fedora CoreOS.
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Chris Adams <linux(a)cmadams.net>