Feature Request: Invalid sshd port fallback

Marc Haber mh+openssh-unix-dev at zugschlus.de
Sat Aug 1 18:35:33 AEST 2015


On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 07:09:17PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Marc Haber
> <mh+openssh-unix-dev at zugschlus.de> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 08:30:28PM +0000, Stop Spazzing wrote:
> >> Why is this a good idea? Would be a good idea because people are human and
> >> make mistakes, and you shouldn't have to wipe your server just because an
> >> invalid port was used by accident.
> >
> > Why would one have to _WIPE_ a server because of a misconfigured sshd?
> 
> If you don't have console access, or it takes a long time to arrange,
> screwing up sshd_config means you are dead in the water.

Sure, but "Stop Spazzing" made it look like this is the normal case.
It isn't.

Greetings
Marc

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