Change to "PermitRootLogin without-password" for new installations

Also ask a debconf question when upgrading systems with "PermitRootLogin
yes" from previous versions.

Closes: #298138

2 files changed, 47 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/debian/po/POTFILES.in b/debian/po/POTFILES.in
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/po/POTFILES.in
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+[type: gettext/rfc822deb] openssh-server.templates
diff --git a/debian/po/templates.pot b/debian/po/templates.pot
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index 000000000..70e64acad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/po/templates.pot
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+# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
+# Copyright (C) YEAR THE PACKAGE'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER
+# This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package.
+# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
+#
+#, fuzzy
+msgid ""
+msgstr ""
+"Project-Id-Version: openssh\n"
+"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: openssh@packages.debian.org\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2014-03-20 02:06+0000\n"
+"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
+"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
+"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"
+"Language: \n"
+"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
+"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET\n"
+"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
+
+#. Type: boolean
+#. Description
+#: ../openssh-server.templates:1001
+msgid "Disable SSH password authentication for root?"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. Type: boolean
+#. Description
+#: ../openssh-server.templates:1001
+msgid ""
+"Previous versions of openssh-server permitted logging in as root over SSH "
+"using password authentication. The default for new installations is now "
+"\"PermitRootLogin without-password\", which disables password authentication "
+"for root without breaking systems that have explicitly configured SSH public "
+"key authentication for root."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. Type: boolean
+#. Description
+#: ../openssh-server.templates:1001
+msgid ""
+"This change makes systems more secure against brute-force password "
+"dictionary attacks on the root user (a very common target for such attacks). "
+"However, it may break systems that are set up with the expectation of being "
+"able to SSH as root using password authentication. You should only make this "
+"change if you do not need to do that."
+msgstr ""