F22 System Wide Change: Set sshd(8) PermitRootLogin=no

Miloslav Trmač mitr at redhat.com
Thu Jan 8 18:52:59 UTC 2015


> > > The only other approach I could see for the headless
> > > servers would be mandating the enrollment in an identity domain at
> > > installation time (such as to FreeIPA or Active Directory).
> > 
> > And in this scenario we should absolutely disable PermitRootLogin.
> 
> So that if you have issues with the connector, you have to reboot the
> machine and be physically present to fix anything.
> 
> Not really a grand plan IMO.

Earlier in the discussions I was told that this is not really an issue: in production, about every server with remote access also has a KVM.
    Mirek


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