Re: Review for "PermitRootLogin without-password" change
Colin Watson wrote:
> After (how can I put it) extensive and heated discussion over many
> years, I intend to change sshd_config in new installations of
> openssh-server to use "PermitRootLogin without-password" rather than
> "PermitRootLogin yes". I have been considering what to do about
> upgrades. Loath though I am to ask more questions of the user, writing
> the README.Debian documentation for this is making me come round to the
> belief that I probably ought to. (This is a shame since I'd only
> recently managed to get rid of the last old and crufty uses of debconf
> in openssh, but there you go.)
It all looks good. "SSH" as a verb works for me; nobody can tell I'm
pronouncing it wrong, and the spelling isn't as tricky as
"telnet(t)ing". I'm just glad nobody says "(r)loginning".
Thanks for making the change!
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
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