Firstboot query

[Tony Molloy]

On Friday 23 April 2010 16:45:55 Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 09:09 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote:
> > ----- "Tony Molloy" <tony.molloy at ul.ie> wrote:
> > > b. you can't ssh in as root over the network.
> > >
> > > So you have to login as an ordinary user, su to root, allow port 22
> > > through
> > > iptables and restart iptables.
> >
> > I believe this is a bug. AdamW or WWoods reported this issue I think,
> > didn't you?
> 
> I don't believe so, no. As Chris and Johann said, this was removed long
> ago and the simple answer is that the original reporter should be
> installing labs using a tool intended for the purpose.

Well I've just done a test install of Fedora 12 this morning and I was able to 
ssh in to the test machine as root immediately after firstboot. So since Fedora 
12 was released less than 6 months ago I don't see how that feature could have 
been removed "long ago"
> 
> It's certainly not the case that we'd want anaconda to set up machines
> so you could ssh into them directly as root by default! That'd be a
> really bad idea.
> 

Tony
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