Abotu setting 'PermitRootLogin=no' in sshd_config

Florian Weimer fweimer at redhat.com
Fri Nov 21 08:11:51 UTC 2014


On 11/21/2014 09:04 AM, P J P wrote:
>> 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?

The latter.  We have to install authorized_keys inside the VM anyway, so 
we can touch sshd_config, too.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security


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