Abotu setting 'PermitRootLogin=no' in sshd_config

P J P pj.pandit at yahoo.co.in
Sat Nov 22 08:24:32 UTC 2014


> On Saturday, 22 November 2014 1:39 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 09:11:51AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> The latter.  We have to install authorized_keys inside the VM
>> anyway, so we can touch sshd_config, too.
> 
> Virt-builder has a new '--ssh-inject' feature (in F22 only).
> 
>   $ virt-builder fedora-20 --ssh-inject root
> 
> would inject your current ssh key into the root account of the new VM.
> There are other variations, including ways to create a non-root user
> account, see:
> 
> http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html

>

  Excellent! :)


So far the consensus seem that it is okay to reverse the current default and set PermitRootLogin=no. I'll talk to the upstream maintainer - plautrba(https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Plautrba).

Thank you.
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