On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 10:21:03 +1100
Cameron Simpson <cs(a)cskk.id.au> wrote:
On 07Oct2019 01:00, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>On Sun, 06 Oct 2019 18:05:02 +0200
>alciregi(a)gmail.com wrote:
>> It could it be related to this change:
>>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/31/ChangeSet#Disable_Root_Passwor...
>
>As a side question --- I remember that this was the default for
>upstream OpenSSH since 2015, but was not adopted in Fedora because
>people who install Fedora on headless machines (or remotely) would
>have no other way of logging in after initial installation. So why
>the change of heart now, what happened to the headless login issue?
Because one can generally set up a normal user, log in as them, then
su or sudo.
Was this not possible back in 2015?
I guess I am asking what technically changed between then and now, so
that we didn't block root back then and we are doing it now?
Best, :-)
Marko