On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 11:06:51AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 10:37 AM Greg Wooledge <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 10:15:47 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > SSH config files are located in /etc, too. But admins are expected to > > > > make changes to /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/, and not /etc/ssh/sshd_config. > > > > > > That's definitely false. > > > > You will absolutely lose your sshd_config when the package is upgraded > > and you choose the maintainers version of the file. > > No. > > You will be asked, as for every conffile.
Please don't do that selective quoting found in dumpster fires like social media: "... and you choose the maintainers version of the file." > Of course, the .d construction is the recommended way these days, > but it is actually more important for *other* packages making > changes to the config. That's why it was introduced in the first > place. Anyone who keeps a downlevel version of their config files -- instead of accepting the latest version from the maintainer -- deserves any problems they encounter. Jeff
