Include for sshd_config

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Mon Apr 24 22:39:49 AEST 2017


On Mon, 24 Apr 2017, Jakub Jelen wrote:

> > I'll update the bug, but IMO re-reading config at runtime is a significant
> > behaviour change and is probably unacceptable. We go through some hassle
> > wrt re-execution to ensure that the configuration sshd is started with is
> > the one that it.
> > 
> > To do otherwise is IMO inviting surprise and trouble for administrators.
> 
> That was just wrongly worded. The configuration file is not re-read from
> filesystem with every connection, but I meant the need to re-parse the file
> for every connection (which does not exists for client config).

oh, ok - I withdraw that objection then :)


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