Abotu setting 'PermitRootLogin=no' in sshd_config

[P J P]

> On Friday, 21 November 2014 1:24 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:

>> On 11/21/2014 08:34 AM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
>> Almost all of my Fedora installations are test VMs where
>> any security is irrelevant.

   Okay. But does enabling root login offer any significant benefit in that? IOW, if it's disabled by default, would it cause any significant inconvenience/troubles?? If not, it better be disabled by default.

> I think it's a valid use case, but rather poorly supported at the 
> moment.  For example, there should be completely seemless SSH login from 
> virt-manager for user-manageable  virtual machines (both as root and the 
> user).
> 
> My point is that once we address this (most likely through some 
> configuration generation during VM setup), we can also switch 
> PermitRootLogin on.


  You mean off? Or that we disable it by default and enable it while setting up a new VM?

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