Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 17:57:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: steve@Watt.COM (Steve Watt) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why sshd:PermitRootLogin = no ? Message-ID: <200110060057.f960vBs86348@earth.backplane.com> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20011005120304.009f8590@127.0.0.1> <200110052040.f95KeTw84982@earth.backplane.com> <20011005165350.A22343@techsquare.com> <200110052058.f95KwSR85154@earth.backplane.com> <20011005170619.A42459@techsquare.com> <200110052314.f95NEAt79407@wattres.Watt.COM>
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:dillon@earth.backplane.com wrote:
:> I'm afraid I don't understand your point. If without-password
:> makes sshd useful to a larger subsection of users without effecting
:> security on the original subsection, why wouldn't you want to make
:> the change? Just because it may not make a difference for YOU doesn't
:> mean that it wouldn't be a useful change to make.
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:But it *can't* make it useful to any more users. How do you get the
:authorized-hosts file updated? You edit it. How do you get the
:configuration changed to without-password from none? You edit it.
:
:Same work, no obvious advantage to without-password over no, and better
:obvservance of "install in the most secure way possible". Just like
:the discard port is disabled in inetd.conf -- same concept.
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:Steve Watt KD6GGD PP-ASEL-IA ICBM: 121W 56' 57.8" / 37N 20' 14.9"
I see. And at what point does editing N files make it 'easier'? 4? 5?
If we were to cut the number of files you had to edit to get X to work
from 5 to 3 would that be worthwhile enough to do a commit? What
exactly are you arguing here? Because I don't see it.
Frankly I think being able to go from 2 files to 1 to get something done,
like creating an authorized_keys file for root, is well worth the commit
if there are otherwise no downsides. I don't see any downsides to doing
this except for a few people who seem to be arguing that status-quo is
better then fixing something even if fixing that something has absolutely
no effect on them.
-Matt
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