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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller
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      That's one of the nice things about the BSD ecosystem, people fork it way less often.

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      • black3dynamiteB
        black3dynamite @scottalanmiller
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        @scottalanmiller said in Allowing Root Password Login via SSH to Dragonfly BSD:

        That's one of the nice things about the BSD ecosystem, people fork it way less often.

        Speaking BSD ecosystem, how is the development of BSD hypervisor, bhyve?

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @black3dynamite
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          @black3dynamite said in Allowing Root Password Login via SSH to Dragonfly BSD:

          @scottalanmiller said in Allowing Root Password Login via SSH to Dragonfly BSD:

          That's one of the nice things about the BSD ecosystem, people fork it way less often.

          Speaking BSD ecosystem, how is the development of BSD hypervisor, bhyve?

          It's going, but I'm not following it closely. It's not very interesting at this point.

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          • thwrT
            thwr @scottalanmiller
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            @scottalanmiller said in Allowing Root Password Login via SSH to Dragonfly BSD:

            By default, Dragonfly disables both root and password-based logins from SSH. This can be a big pain if you are just using the system casually or temporarily. To fix this you need to first edit the configuration file for SSHD:

            vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config

            Then to allow root to log in via SSH make PermitRootLogin be "yes":

            PermitRootLogin yes

            And to allow root or any user to use passwords for SSH login change PasswordAuthentication to "yes".

            PasswordAuthentication yes

            You'll need to restart SSHD for this to take effect:

            /etc/rc.d/sshd restart

            A whole bunch of Linux distros do the same. You should choose a more general name for the thread - like "Allowing root password login via SSH".

            Anyway, it's generally a better idea to use key based logins.

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @thwr
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              @thwr said in Allowing Root Password Login via SSH to Dragonfly BSD:

              @scottalanmiller said in Allowing Root Password Login via SSH to Dragonfly BSD:

              By default, Dragonfly disables both root and password-based logins from SSH. This can be a big pain if you are just using the system casually or temporarily. To fix this you need to first edit the configuration file for SSHD:

              vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config

              Then to allow root to log in via SSH make PermitRootLogin be "yes":

              PermitRootLogin yes

              And to allow root or any user to use passwords for SSH login change PasswordAuthentication to "yes".

              PasswordAuthentication yes

              You'll need to restart SSHD for this to take effect:

              /etc/rc.d/sshd restart

              A whole bunch of Linux distros do the same. You should choose a more general name for the thread - like "Allowing root password login via SSH".

              Anyway, it's generally a better idea to use key based logins.

              This is the only OS I know that does this by default. People looking for Dragonfly issues will run into it.

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              • black3dynamiteB
                black3dynamite @scottalanmiller
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                @scottalanmiller said in Allowing Root Password Login via SSH to Dragonfly BSD:

                @thwr said in Allowing Root Password Login via SSH to Dragonfly BSD:

                @scottalanmiller said in Allowing Root Password Login via SSH to Dragonfly BSD:

                By default, Dragonfly disables both root and password-based logins from SSH. This can be a big pain if you are just using the system casually or temporarily. To fix this you need to first edit the configuration file for SSHD:

                vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config

                Then to allow root to log in via SSH make PermitRootLogin be "yes":

                PermitRootLogin yes

                And to allow root or any user to use passwords for SSH login change PasswordAuthentication to "yes".

                PasswordAuthentication yes

                You'll need to restart SSHD for this to take effect:

                /etc/rc.d/sshd restart

                A whole bunch of Linux distros do the same. You should choose a more general name for the thread - like "Allowing root password login via SSH".

                Anyway, it's generally a better idea to use key based logins.

                This is the only OS I know that does this by default. People looking for Dragonfly issues will run into it.

                Debian disallows root login not sure about passwords.

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller @black3dynamite
                  last edited by

                  @black3dynamite said in Allowing Root Password Login via SSH to Dragonfly BSD:

                  @scottalanmiller said in Allowing Root Password Login via SSH to Dragonfly BSD:

                  @thwr said in Allowing Root Password Login via SSH to Dragonfly BSD:

                  @scottalanmiller said in Allowing Root Password Login via SSH to Dragonfly BSD:

                  By default, Dragonfly disables both root and password-based logins from SSH. This can be a big pain if you are just using the system casually or temporarily. To fix this you need to first edit the configuration file for SSHD:

                  vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config

                  Then to allow root to log in via SSH make PermitRootLogin be "yes":

                  PermitRootLogin yes

                  And to allow root or any user to use passwords for SSH login change PasswordAuthentication to "yes".

                  PasswordAuthentication yes

                  You'll need to restart SSHD for this to take effect:

                  /etc/rc.d/sshd restart

                  A whole bunch of Linux distros do the same. You should choose a more general name for the thread - like "Allowing root password login via SSH".

                  Anyway, it's generally a better idea to use key based logins.

                  This is the only OS I know that does this by default. People looking for Dragonfly issues will run into it.

                  Debian disallows root login not sure about passwords.

                  Totally different as it...

                  • Allows passwords
                  • Creates the user
                  • Sets the user to be sudo

                  All of that is not used in Dragonfly.

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                  • thwrT
                    thwr @black3dynamite
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                    @black3dynamite said in Allowing Root Password Login via SSH to Dragonfly BSD:

                    @scottalanmiller said in Allowing Root Password Login via SSH to Dragonfly BSD:

                    @thwr said in Allowing Root Password Login via SSH to Dragonfly BSD:

                    @scottalanmiller said in Allowing Root Password Login via SSH to Dragonfly BSD:

                    By default, Dragonfly disables both root and password-based logins from SSH. This can be a big pain if you are just using the system casually or temporarily. To fix this you need to first edit the configuration file for SSHD:

                    vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config

                    Then to allow root to log in via SSH make PermitRootLogin be "yes":

                    PermitRootLogin yes

                    And to allow root or any user to use passwords for SSH login change PasswordAuthentication to "yes".

                    PasswordAuthentication yes

                    You'll need to restart SSHD for this to take effect:

                    /etc/rc.d/sshd restart

                    A whole bunch of Linux distros do the same. You should choose a more general name for the thread - like "Allowing root password login via SSH".

                    Anyway, it's generally a better idea to use key based logins.

                    This is the only OS I know that does this by default. People looking for Dragonfly issues will run into it.

                    Debian disallows root login not sure about passwords.

                    At least Ubuntu is

                    PermitRootLogin without-password

                    by default

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @thwr
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                      @thwr said in Allowing Root Password Login via SSH to Dragonfly BSD:

                      @black3dynamite said in Allowing Root Password Login via SSH to Dragonfly BSD:

                      @scottalanmiller said in Allowing Root Password Login via SSH to Dragonfly BSD:

                      @thwr said in Allowing Root Password Login via SSH to Dragonfly BSD:

                      @scottalanmiller said in Allowing Root Password Login via SSH to Dragonfly BSD:

                      By default, Dragonfly disables both root and password-based logins from SSH. This can be a big pain if you are just using the system casually or temporarily. To fix this you need to first edit the configuration file for SSHD:

                      vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config

                      Then to allow root to log in via SSH make PermitRootLogin be "yes":

                      PermitRootLogin yes

                      And to allow root or any user to use passwords for SSH login change PasswordAuthentication to "yes".

                      PasswordAuthentication yes

                      You'll need to restart SSHD for this to take effect:

                      /etc/rc.d/sshd restart

                      A whole bunch of Linux distros do the same. You should choose a more general name for the thread - like "Allowing root password login via SSH".

                      Anyway, it's generally a better idea to use key based logins.

                      This is the only OS I know that does this by default. People looking for Dragonfly issues will run into it.

                      Debian disallows root login not sure about passwords.

                      At least Ubuntu is

                      PermitRootLogin without-password

                      by default

                      Right, they allow a lot. 🙂

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller
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                        Dragonfly is tough by default because unless you use something like Salt, you can't connect to it to get keys to it in the first place. You can curl keys to it, of course. But you need totally different processes than you would typically use with any other OS to get it set up.

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                        • black3dynamiteB
                          black3dynamite @scottalanmiller
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                          @scottalanmiller said in Allowing Root Password Login via SSH to Dragonfly BSD:

                          Dragonfly is tough by default because unless you use something like Salt, you can't connect to it to get keys to it in the first place. You can curl keys to it, of course. But you need totally different processes than you would typically use with any other OS to get it set up.

                          That means it's not even Ansible friendly. Pretty much agent-based tools like Puppet, Salt, etc... is the way to go.

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller @black3dynamite
                            last edited by

                            @black3dynamite said in Allowing Root Password Login via SSH to Dragonfly BSD:

                            @scottalanmiller said in Allowing Root Password Login via SSH to Dragonfly BSD:

                            Dragonfly is tough by default because unless you use something like Salt, you can't connect to it to get keys to it in the first place. You can curl keys to it, of course. But you need totally different processes than you would typically use with any other OS to get it set up.

                            That means it's not even Ansible friendly. Pretty much agent-based tools like Puppet, Salt, etc... is the way to go.

                            Yup, unless you have some way to push the Ansible key ahead of time, like in a curl. So back to the beginning there 🙂

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