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

P J P pj.pandit at yahoo.co.in
Wed Jan 14 17:33:14 UTC 2015


> On Wednesday, 14 January 2015 10:44 PM, Simo Sorce wrote:
>>   "Anaconda installer OR maybe OpenSSH package needs to create
>>     initial set of authentication keys for 'root' user."
> 
> Sorry, but what is the point of this operation, wrt auth with keys issue ?

  Well, it can be used it to export to other machines. It'll require you to
login as non-root user first.

> Being able to authenticate as root right after installation would be
> the requirement for me.

  Right. But how would you inject a key for that? 

If you must have only 'root' account in your set-up, remote root access
could be enabled by default. Feature page lists

  ...
  "Omission of such user account should prompt user if they wish to
    enable remote 'root' login, and set the parameter appropriately."

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