From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Cc: 44808@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44808: Default to allowing password authentication on leaves users vulnerable
Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2020 16:14:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eek45lpg.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87im9nmr5u.fsf@gmail.com> (Maxim Cournoyer's message of "Sun, 29 Nov 2020 22:58:53 -0500")
Hi!
Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:
>>> 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.
>>
>> That's fair... I think that
>> "[ ] Password authentication? (insecure)"
>> would be sufficient as an option. How do others feel?
>
> I'm +1 on disabling password access out of the box; especially since
> Guix System makes it easy to authorize SSH keys at installation time.
> We'd have to see if it breaks any of our system tests, but I doubt so.
Agreed. There are several ways to do that:
1. Have the installer emit an ‘openssh-configuration’ that explicitly
disables password authentication.
2. Change the default value of the relevant field in
<openssh-configuration>.
#2 is more thorough but also more risky: people could find themselves
locked out of their server after reconfiguration, though this could be
mitigated by a news entry.
Thoughts?
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-05 15:15 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
2020-11-23 16:17 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2020-11-30 3:58 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-12-05 15:14 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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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