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Date:      Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:38:41 -0700
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Pollywog <lists-fbsdstable@shadypond.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sshd_config question
Message-ID:  <20080630033841.GA65378@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
In-Reply-To: <200806300254.58922.lists-fbsdstable@shadypond.com>
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On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 02:54:57AM +0000, Pollywog wrote:
> On Sunday 29 June 2008 23:55:25 Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> > On 2008 Jun 29, at 19:22, Jeff Richards wrote:
> > > After setting those options I kill -HUP the sshd  process.
> >
> > I thought sshd ignored SIGHUP and you had to actually stop and restart
> > it to pick up configuration changes.
> 
> IIRC, I use SIGHUP in OpenBSD but in FreeBSD, I use /etc/rc.d/sshd restart

According to the OpenSSH sshd manpage, it handles SIGHUP, and re-reads
the configuration file:

  sshd rereads its configuration file when it receives a hangup signal,
  SIGHUP, by executing itself with the name and options it was started
  with, e.g. /usr/sbin/sshd.

> I also have 
> 
> PubkeyAuthentication yes 
> 
> in my sshd_config but perhaps this is the default, I am unsure.

It is the default, in both sshd_config (server) and ssh_config (client).
See the sshd_config(5) and ssh_config(5) manpages.

> In some situations, I also need to edit ~/.ssh/config to allow the connection 
> and add 'PubkeyAuthentication yes' (on the host initiating the connection).

Possibly you have to do this on machines with an older OpenSSH; I don't
know if the default values were different then.

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