Bug#751636: openssh-server: ssh sessions are not cleanly termined on shutdown/restart with systemd
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 04:12:07AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-10-11 at 18:33 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > Yes, a lot of people being *quite* upset when they stop ssh to restart it
> > with debugging or to temporarily bring it down while working on something,
> > discover that their session was terminated in a way that's never happened
> > with ssh in the past, and now be unable to connect to the system since it
> > was a remote server.
> >
> > Let's not do that. That would be really unpleasant. We need to preserve
> > the current sshd behavior that stopping the service does *not* kill open
> > sessions.
>
> Well never too late to change something *if* it was the cleaner way to
> handle it. =)
That would be the systemd way to do it and instantly spawn a new hate
wave. After all, it was systemd locking people out of their headless,
remote systems during an urgent security update.
Don't change this behavior. Please.
Greetings
Marc
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