User-specific sshd_config?

Peter Stuge stuge-openssh-unix-dev at cdy.org
Fri Apr 4 20:05:57 EST 2008


On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 07:07:17AM +0200, Ingemar Nilsson wrote:
> I wonder if it would be possible to implement support for a 
> user-specific sshd_config.

Sure it is.

But there exists no such support.


> Of course, a user-specific sshd_config file should not be able to
> break the security policy of the system-wide configuration, only
> restrict it even further.

And it may be tricky to decide what constitutes "further
restrictions".

Either way I believe it will be much quicker to ask your friendly
root to add the exception in a Match block in the system sshd_config.


//Peter


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