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I booted a server and (too late) I discovered that some breaking change had been made to /etc/ssh/sshd.conf. Can I be reasonably sure that restarting sshd keeps existing connections ? (this was on solaris, but question also applies to ubuntu)
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I booted a server and (too late) I discovered that some breaking change had been made to /etc/ssh/sshd.conf. Can I be reasonably sure that restarting sshd keeps existing connections ? (this was on solaris, but question also applies to ubuntu)
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You can be (reasonably) sure that your current connection will not break when you restart sshd
. If you want to be on the safe side, simply send a SIGHUP
to your running instance and it will re-read its configuration file.
Indeed. Straight from the authoritative source sshd rereads its configuration file when it receives a hangup signal, SIGHUP. Tested with `
– Stéphane Gourichon – 2015-11-21T18:55:32.540See also
– Stéphane Gourichon – 2015-11-21T18:57:23.093sshd -t
Test mode. Only check the validity of the configuration file and sanity of the keys. This is useful for updating sshd reliably as configuration options may change.