Am Samstag, 27. September 2014, 10:06:39 schrieb Daniel Richard G.: > On Sat, 2014 Sep 27 15:40+0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > > So am I right to conclude that this bug actually concerns the change > > that changes PermitRootLogin to without-password? > > I believe that's the real issue, yes.
[...] > > However, I recognise that there are people that are using password- > > based root login who may be surprised by this change. The proper > > solution therefore may be to add a NEWS.Debian entry so everyone is > > informed about this change, and a release notes item at that. If those > > are added, this bug could be closed. > > Is there anything that can be done about the unhelpful auth.log > messages? Package documentation is good, and the permit-root-login > debconf question also helps there, but a user who is trying to diagnose > the issue via syslog could use better hints as to what's going on. I didn't complain about PermitRootLogin (although this seems to be the bug's cause), my issue is that I am *not able to login as root*. Even notes in NEWS.Debian wouldn't let me login as root. If not changing would mean that it is still needed to patch the system. Digging down to manuals/config files is quite uncomfortable. IMHO it remains best practice of the installer to ask for enable/disable as usual (with default to "no", but I KNOW HOW TO ANSWER....). I would be really happy to still have the choice from the installer (this does not reduce security of a default installation). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
