Re: [gentoo-user] OpenSSH upgrade warning

[Walter Dnes]

On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 08:38:20PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote
> A major upgrade to OpenSSH is being stabilized:
>
>   https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=555518
>
> The default of PermitRootLogin for sshd in the new version is
> "prohibit-password". If you typically log in to the root account over
> SSH using a password, **IT'S GONNA BREAK**, and you won't be able to fix
> it remotely unless you have an account that can sudo to root.
>
> To maintain the current behavior, set PermitRootLogin to "yes" before
> you upgrade, and then be careful not to wipe out sshd_config.

  Thanks for the info.  I'd doing an install on a machine at home, and I
ran into that.  Since I hadn't yet created a local user, there was
nowhere to sudo from.  Fortunately, it's all in one room, and a few
clicks of the KVM remote-switcher brought me to the actual machine,
where I could log in directly.  I now have my key on the installed
machine and can ssh in from my current machine.

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications