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Re: Review for "PermitRootLogin without-password" change



Hi,

Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:

> 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.)

On reading what follows I was left slightly confused as to who is
going to be asked the debconf question - just new installations? If
that's the case, might it be worth mentioning in README.Debian that
new installations will be PermitRootLogin without-password unless the
user elected to override via debconf?

Regards,

Matthew 

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