From 925ef19ebf37c5e4936a08a8e8afa93658104cdc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:19:50 +0100
Subject: If no root password is set, then switch to "PermitRootLogin
 without-password" without asking (LP: #1300127).

---
 debian/openssh-server.config | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'debian/openssh-server.config')

diff --git a/debian/openssh-server.config b/debian/openssh-server.config
index 27594ad2d..883dbf41b 100644
--- a/debian/openssh-server.config
+++ b/debian/openssh-server.config
@@ -16,8 +16,12 @@ get_config_option() {
 
 if dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt-nl 1:6.6p1-1 && \
    [ "$(get_config_option PermitRootLogin)" = yes ]; then
-	db_input high openssh-server/permit-root-login || true
-	db_go
+	if [ "$(getent shadow root | cut -d: -f2)" = "!" ]; then
+		db_set openssh-server/permit-root-login true
+	else
+		db_input high openssh-server/permit-root-login || true
+		db_go
+	fi
 fi
 
 exit 0
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