For the first time in years, I can ssh in as root on fedora 25 without having to modify the sshd_config to allow it. What happened? Did the security geeks lose a bet or something?
On 11/23/2016 08:54 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
For the first time in years, I can ssh in as root on fedora 25 without having to modify the sshd_config to allow it. What happened? Did the security geeks lose a bet or something?
I'm not aware of any release of a Red Hat derived system that defaults to disallowing root logins by default.
On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 10:34:18 -0800 Gordon Messmer wrote:
I'm not aware of any release of a Red Hat derived system that defaults to disallowing root logins by default.
I've always had to edit PermitRootLogin to say "yes" in every release that I can remember till now. It was always something like "prohibit-password" before, but now the installed sshd_config file actually says "yes" :-).
On 11/23/2016 11:27 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
I've always had to edit PermitRootLogin to say "yes" in every release that I can remember till now. It was always something like "prohibit-password" before, but now the installed sshd_config file actually says "yes":-).
# grep PermitRoot /etc/ssh/sshd_config PermitRootLogin yes # rpm -Vf /etc/ssh/sshd_config # cat /etc/fedora-release Fedora release 24 (Twenty Four)
As best I recall, Ubuntu disallows root login by default, but Red Hat systems never have. Maybe you're thinking of another distro?
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