sshd -p option vs ListenAddress

[Chris Lightfoot]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 03:14:07PM -0800, Kevin Steves wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 12:48:49PM +0000, Chris Lightfoot wrote:
> : On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:36:33PM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote:
> : > > This seems... counterintuitive, at least. Is it the
> : > > intended behaviour?
> 
> yes.
> 
> : > Two different options (Port and ListenAddress) that control the same
> : > thing are bound to be at least a little bit confusing.
> 
> true.
> 
> : > Although sshd_config(5) is somewhat helpful, it doesn't clearly say
> : > that ListenAddress has priority over Port, at least with a
> : > ListenAddress on host 0.
> : 
> : No -- it's in the case where all ListenAddress directives
> : specify a port, rather than where all specify host = 0.
> 
> Summary as I recall:
>   -p overrides Port
>   ListenAddress :port overrides -p and Port
>   -p or Port only used when no ListenAddress :port
> 
> The following seem fairly clear to me but I may have written some
> of it.
    [...]

Yes, it's fine taken all together, but the description in
sshd(8) implies that you can make the server listen on a
particular port just by giving a -p option. It'd be useful
at least to note that this isn't so, for instance by
adding, something like,

    However, this option does not override any port
    specified as part of a ListenAddress in the
    configuration file; see sshd_config(5) for more
    information.

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