Bug 1895

Summary: PATCH: sshd_config: Reformat configuration in sections.
Product: Portable OpenSSH Reporter: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto>
Component: DocumentationAssignee: Assigned to nobody <unassigned-bugs>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX    
Severity: enhancement CC: djm, dtucker
Priority: P2    
Version: -current   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Improve sshd_config layout none

Description Jari Aalto 2011-05-01 01:14:06 AEST
Created attachment 2037 [details]
Improve sshd_config layout

- Add section breaks to help finding visual cues. Indent standard text
  to column 8 (position of tab) and leave configuration examples to the   left.
- Add new example: how to restrict root login only inside local LAN.

This patch is against CVS 2011-04-30 15:12
Comment 1 Darren Tucker 2011-05-06 10:56:39 AEST
I'm not a fan; to me this looks worse.
Comment 2 Damien Miller 2011-06-03 10:52:45 AEST
Thanks, but I agree with Darren. If you would like to discuss changing the layout of the configuration file, then it is probably better to thrash it out on the mailing list first.
Comment 3 Damien Miller 2011-09-06 15:33:01 AEST
close resolved bugs now that openssh-5.9 has been released