Feature Request: Invalid sshd port fallback

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

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?
>
> Greetings
> Marc

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. This is why
sshd's default "re-exec sshd and associate it with the terminal
sesson" is so invaluable: it allows you to restart the daeemon, and
test the new daemon, without losing your active session.