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openssh package

  1. Noble (24.04)
  2. Bug #2069041
  3. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 2069041

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Nick Rosbrook (enr0n) wrote : Re: Changing Port in sshd_config and restarting ssh.service without effect

With 24.04 LTS, ssh is socket activated by default. The configuration for the socket is generated by reading the regular /etc/ssh/sshd_config (or /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/ snippets), but the configuration needs to be reloaded. So, the steps for configuring a new port are:

# Add new port to /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/port.conf
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl restart ssh.socket

The key point being that a systemctl daemon-reload is needed.