On 5/14/21 2:50 PM, Martin Kolman wrote:
On Thu, 2021-05-13 at 20:09 +0200, Peter Boy wrote:
> We discussed that in the Fedora Server Edition Working Group and
> opted to leave it as is for the Server installation iso. A lot of
> servers are running in a protected environment. And there are
> situations when you need urgent access but do not sit at your desktop
> and don’t have the key available. So let the server admin decide what
> is best in a given installation context. In most cases it is the
> current default (disallow password login)
Do those server deployments not have any users accounts other than root
? Creating a non-root user account, possibly with admin rights (all
possible from within Anaconda) would seem like a safer option for
accasional/emergency password based access to such machines over SSH.
I don't see, how this would any safer than directly using "root".
Ralf