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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
Cc: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>, 44808@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44808: Default to allowing password authentication on leaves users vulnerable
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2020 12:51:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sg8hzvdx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0twkt9c.fsf@dustycloud.org> (Christopher Lemmer Webber's message of "Sat, 05 Dec 2020 13:22:23 -0500")

Hi Chris,

Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès writes:

[...]

>> 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’.
>
> We could also do a combination of the above, as a transitional plan:
> do #1 for now, but try to advertise that in the future, the default will
> be changing... please explicitly set password access to #t if you need
> this!  Then in the *following* release, change the default.
>
> This seems like a reasonable transition plan, kind of akin to a
> deprecation process?

Sounds like a plan.  I went ahead and pushed
aecd2a13cbd8301d0fdeafcacbf69e12cc3f6138 which does this.

Thanks,
Ludo’.




  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-07 11:54 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
2020-12-05 18:22         ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2020-12-07 11:51           ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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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