Colin Watson <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 08:32:56PM -0400, James Cloos wrote:
>> I am in favour of the change fo new installs, and of asking to do it on >> upgrades. >> But please be sure to announce the change widely. >> It is *very* common in the vps world for new virtuals to come with the >> expectation that the users must login the first time as root with a >> password. >> The companies doing that will need to know that they either have to >> start asking for an ssh public key when a customer purchases a new vps >> or change their template to bypass debian's new default. >> (I presume most of us will prefer the former, but I'm not holding my >> breath.) > Thanks for this feedback. Do you have any suggestions for where we > might publicise this in an effective way? Adding it to the jessie release notes, at least, seems like it would be a good idea. (I also wholeheartedly agree with the change, though.) -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
