F21 System Wide Change: The securetty file is empty by default

Corey Sheldon sheldon.corey at gmail.com
Fri Apr 11 16:23:43 UTC 2014


Picking this up late but am I current in understanding this essentially
creates an additional kernel level sandbox to the ssh secure tty
tunnelling?  and is this for both server and client or just for server
env./?

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On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com>wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > = Proposed System Wide Change:  The securetty file is empty by default =
> >
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/securetty_file_is_empty_by_default
> >
> > Change owner(s):  quickbooks <quickbooks.office at gmail.com>
> >
> > The securetty file is empty by default
> >
> > There's on-going discussion for this Change on the devel list.
> > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-April/197344.html
>
> Fedora Base Working Group discussed this Change on today's meeting
> (2014-04-11) and tends to support counter proposal to remove securetty
> entirely from the default PAM configuration (not from distribution)
> as discussed in the thread mentioned above. Base WG would like to ask
> FESCo to weight it as part of decision making (once this change hits
> FESCo meeting).
>
> Jaroslav
> on behalf of Base WG
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