While we’re at it, should we also remove the dangerous items from
debug-tweaks and require them to be enabled explicitly?

Alex

On Tue 5. Nov 2024 at 20.49, Ross Burton via lists.openembedded.org
<[email protected]> wrote:

> debug-tweaks is vague and doesn't give any indication that the root user
> can login over SSH without a password.  This behaviour is incredibly
> dangerous if used unwittingly, so discourage it by using the underlying
> features explicitly to spell out exactly what is being done.
>
> This is not the complete set of features that debug-tweaks enables,
> but I don't think we need to enable serial-autologin-root or
> post-install-logging by default.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <[email protected]>
> ---
>  meta-poky/conf/templates/default/local.conf.sample | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/meta-poky/conf/templates/default/local.conf.sample
> b/meta-poky/conf/templates/default/local.conf.sample
> index 72d35662940..cfa77106ab3 100644
> --- a/meta-poky/conf/templates/default/local.conf.sample
> +++ b/meta-poky/conf/templates/default/local.conf.sample
> @@ -145,8 +145,8 @@ DISTRO ?= "poky"
>  # There are other application targets that can be used here too, see
>  # meta/classes-recipe/image.bbclass and
>  # meta/classes-recipe/core-image.bbclass for more details.
> -# We default to enabling the debugging tweaks.
> -EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES ?= "debug-tweaks"
> +# We default to allowing root login without a password for convenience.
> +EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES ?= "allow-empty-password empty-root-password
> allow-root-login"
>
>  #
>  # Additional image features
> --
> 2.34.1
>
>
> 
>
>
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