Configuration Changes

1.0.9

• Set the serial line 2025-05-29T14:47:27

  Explicitly set the serial line for grub to avoid auto probing which may
  result in a hang.

1.0.8

• Generalize billing flavor switching 2025-04-30T12:23:51

  With version 10.4.0 of cloud regionsrv-client a general way to handle
  billing model switches has been implemented. This supersedes the
  previous Azure specific implementation. In addition a billing
  model change feature is being introduced in GCE. Enable billing
  model switches in GCE using the new implementation and switch Azure
  to the new implementation. Feature is not supported for 3rd party
  listings (Marketplace images) or when no PAYG equivalent exists.

1.0.7

• Add work-around for broken hardening rule (bsc#1241615) 2025-04-24T11:45:05

  Add temporary work-around for broken evaluation of limit password reuse
  hardening rule.

• No root login with password over ssh 2025-04-21T20:34:43

  Do not allow root to login via ssh using a password. While we already have
  measures in place to make it difficult to setup password based login via
  ssh, this adds another layer addressing the root user. Cloud instances
  should only used key based login.

• Disable password based login for ssh 2025-04-18T11:40:04

  Depending on the protocol version for SSH we need to set either
  ChallengeResponseAuthentication or KbdInteractiveAuthentication to
  "no". Prior to this change we only set ChallengeResponseAuthentication
  allowing password based login when the SSHv2 protocol is used. We now
  modify newer config files appropriately.

• Drop instance-billing-flavor check from CHOST and Azure LI/VLI 2025-03-12T12:56:10

Added Packages

• HANA-Firewall
• cloud-regionsrv-client-license-watcher
• firewalld-lang
• firewalld
• nftables
• openssh-server-config-disallow-rootlogin
• yast2-sap-ha