From: Carlo Zancanaro <carlo@zancanaro.id.au>
To: Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
Cc: 44808@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44808: Default to allowing password authentication on leaves users vulnerable
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 14:57:27 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874klgybbs.fsf@zancanaro.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878sat3rnn.fsf@dustycloud.org>
Hey Chris!
On Mon, Nov 23 2020, Christopher Lemmer Webber wrote:
> ... Plus, few distributions do what we're doing anymore,
> precisely because of wanting to be secure by default.
Is this true? Debian defaults to passwords being allowed. I think
it even allows root login by default. At least, I have always had
to add "PermitRootLogin no" and "PasswordAuthentication no"
whenever I install openssh-server on debian.
I'm on board with what you're proposing, and I think Guix should
default to the more secure option, but I'm not sure that an
"average user" (whatever that means for Guix's demographic) would
expect that password authentication is disabled by default.
Carlo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-23 3:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-22 23:20 bug#44808: Default to allowing password authentication on leaves users vulnerable Christopher Lemmer Webber
2020-11-23 2:32 ` Taylan Kammer
2020-11-23 3:46 ` raingloom
2020-11-23 16:15 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2020-11-23 3:57 ` Carlo Zancanaro [this message]
2020-11-23 16:17 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2020-11-30 3:58 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-12-05 15:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-12-05 18:22 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2020-12-07 11:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-12-07 12:56 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2020-12-07 16:48 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2020-12-07 19:53 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2020-12-07 22:57 ` Mark H Weaver
2020-12-08 10:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-12-09 1:31 ` Mark H Weaver
2020-12-10 8:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-12-11 1:43 ` Mark H Weaver
2020-12-11 18:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-12-08 13:48 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2020-12-07 19:40 ` Leo Famulari
2020-12-07 21:38 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2021-02-11 7:46 ` raid5atemyhomework via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-02-11 20:36 ` Leo Famulari
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