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Bug#462446: openssh-server: PermitRootLogin option set to yes



This one time, at band camp, Nico Golde said:
> Hi Stephen,
> * Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org> [2008-01-24 23:33]:
> > tags 462446 -security
> > severity 462446 normal
> > thanks
> > 
> > This one time, at band camp, Grzegorz Zur said:
> > > Value of 'PermitRootLogin' option is set to 'yes' by 'postinst' script. 
> > > See 'postinst' script line 265.
> > 
> > This is not a security hole.  I'll leave it up to the maintainer whether
> > to close this outright or do something else with it, but I'm removing
> > security and severity.
> 
> This bug can be closed as this is documented behaviour with 
> an explanation in README.Debian since a long time.

That's fine - I am not involved in the maintaining of openssh, so I
don't like to close bugs in other people's packages without giving them
a chance to weigh in.  I agree with you, fwiw.
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