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Re: is there an "include" directive for /etc/sshd_config?

On Sun, 1 Mar 2020, Alan McKay wrote:

> I don't think there are any obvious security reasons not to support
> it of course you never know what goes through the mind of the
> OpenBSD team.
>
> I've never used it but yeah it sure would be useful because
> including is way easier than editing in place.  What we've always
> done is deploy from svn/git with a templating system like Maven
> which works really well.
>
> Now all that said I was curious and googled, and it looks like this
> is something new
>
> https://superuser.com/questions/247564/is-there-a-way-for-one-ssh-config-file-to-include-another-one

  interesting, but that entire page seems related to ssh_config, not
sshd_config. i would think that allowing Includes for client
configuration would be safer than for server configuration.

rday

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