Firstboot query

Tony Molloy tony.molloy at ul.ie
Wed Apr 28 07:25:40 UTC 2010


On Tuesday 27 April 2010 22:28:47 Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 20:43 +0200, Tomas Mraz wrote:
> > This was always allowed with the reasoning that headless remote installs
> > without kickstart would not be otherwise possible .
> >
> > If there is consensus that this install use-case should not be supported
> > anymore it would be possible to
> > a) disable ssh port in the firewall by default
> > b) do not start sshd by default
> > c) disallow root login in the sshd_config file
> >
> > or any combination of the above.
> >
> > In my opinion b) alone would be the best choice as this would make sshd
> > similar to other services.
> 
> I doubt there's consensus, likely just me misunderstanding. It doesn't
> seem like a great default configuration, but if it's something that's
> explicitly been allowed and which admins rely on, we should certainly be
> careful about changing it, and if it doesn't currently work in practice,
> we should fix that for F13. Thanks for the explanation.
> 
> So Tony, disregarding my earlier mails, could you file a bug on whatever
> is preventing this working as it did in F12? Thanks.
> 

Reported as Bug 586685

Regards,

Tony
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