Bug#751636: openssh-server: ssh sessions are not cleanly termined on shutdown/restart with systemd
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 06:33:39PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net> writes:
> > But I mean before thinking about "how to handle it technically",... it
> > should probably decided "what do we actually want". Like "even if ssh
> > itself (the binary) behaves different from apache/etc. - do we want to
> > keep that in the unit-files or do we want "stop" to generally mean that
> > everything from that service is stopped".
>
> > I personally would tend to the later, though this may have many
> > implications...
>
> 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.
Amen.
Greetings
Marc
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