PermitRootLogin=yes no longer lets root login
Darren Tucker
dtucker at zip.com.au
Thu Mar 6 08:53:39 EST 2003
Markus Friedl wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 12:06:22AM +1100, Darren Tucker wrote:
> > #ifndef HAVE_CYGWIN
> > - if (pw->pw_uid == 0 && options.permit_root_login != PERMIT_YES)
> > + if (pw->pw_uid == 0 && options.permit_root_login != PERMIT_NO_PASSWD)
> >
> > Was this intentional?
> OpenBSD's code has
..
> if (pw->pw_uid == 0 && options.permit_root_login != PERMIT_YES)
> return 0;
..
> and this is intentional
Um... I was querying the change from PERMIT_YES to PERMIT_NO_PASSWD in
-portable, and AFAIK it was changed in error and has long since been
fixed (or have I missed something?)
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