[CentOS-devel] Cloud image default login

Nico Kadel-Garcia

nkadel at gmail.com
Wed Jul 16 11:31:54 UTC 2014


On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 1:03 AM, Jimmy Kaplowitz <jkaplowitz at google.com> wrote:
> Hi Nico,

> Regarding your specific concerns about root's passwd data, we don't change
> that. I forget whether we change CentOS's root SSH login setting; we do
> change a few other things like disabling password SSH auth and putting in
> some connection keepalive settings, but it's quite close to stock config. We
> try to keep our deviations justifiable, and if you think any are not, we'd
> like to hear about them. :) As one example justification, the SSH connection
> keepalive is because TCP connections that remain idle too many minutes will
> get dropped by the GCE firewall.
>
> - Jimmy
>
> We aren't changing root's passwd data.

Good. It sounds like you are doing a thoughtful, cautious job and
weighing the consequences before changing defaults.



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