[CentOS] C 7.3 sshd will not reload

[Tate Belden]

Oh yea!

That's how I test/implement new configurations.

Make a change
restart
test
make a change
Lather, rinse and repeat

On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 6:26 PM, <me at tdiehl.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Mar 2017, Tate Belden wrote:
>
> I have to assume it's something unique to your install, then.
>>
>> I run about a dozen sshd instances on as many CentOS 7 boxes around here.
>> To a one, systemctl restart sshd is all it takes to implement config
>> changes.
>>
>
> Did you actually change something before doing the restart? If nothing
> changes
> it will restart every time. If I change the configuration to for instance
> have
> sshd listen on another port, that is when I have the problem. Oh and
> selinux is
> in permissive.
>
> There is nothing special about the environment. a couple of VM's in
> question
> are brand new minimal installs. I spin them up for testing push new sshd
> configs
> to them with Ansible and tear them down.
>
> Before someone says Ansible is the problem I have tried this by hand also.
>
>
> Regards,
>
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>
>
>> On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 11:50 AM, <me at tdiehl.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2 Mar 2017, Tate Belden wrote:
>>>
>>> Might I suggest using "systemctl restart sshd", instead of reload? At the
>>>
>>>> least - see if it behaves differently for you.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> restart, reload, stop then start all produce the same results.
>>>
>>> If I do not change the configuration, and just issue the restart, reload,
>>> etc.
>>> then it behaves as expected. Obviously that is not useful when you have
>>> configuration changes.
>>>
>>> I tested this on a couple of other VM's and get the same results.
>>>
>>
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