Thanks Martin,

I created a password for this my empty password user, I just want to report
the possible breach and give everybody a way to fix it. Thanks for sharing
the solution, I will add checks for empty passwords in my monitoring tools

Regards,

Em sex, 11 de jan de 2019 às 05:37, Martin Pitt <[email protected]> escreveu:

> Hello Daniel,
>
> Daniel. [2019-01-10 23:26 -0200]:
> > I just installed cockpit in a server that I have access exclusively with
> > ssh keys, my surprise is that the user hasn't a password and installing
> > cockpit make possible to login without password opening a breach.
>
> *Never* have users with an empty password (i. e. no password)! As you see,
> this
> will allow anyone else to log into the system as that user, via cockpit or
> su.
> Just disabling one avenue of login (e. g. by disabling password
> authentication
> in sshd_config) leaves too many other holes open.
>
> Note that cockpit is doing nothing special, /etc/pam.d/cockpit just
> includes
> the common "password-auth" PAM module.
>
> The proper way to configure such user accounts is to not have a valid empty
> password, but a locked one:
>
>   sudo passwd --lock thatuser
>
> Martin
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