Firstboot query

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 08:59 +0100, Tony Molloy wrote:
> 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.
> > 

Well, seems like it could stand some investigation. I'm still fairly
sure we _shouldn't_ allow remote ssh login as root by default, but it
might be better to check it out with ssh maintainer or something...
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Adam Williamson
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