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sshd won't reread the config file - Slackware 9.0

I'm having trouble making changes to my /etc/sshd/sshd_config file and having them take effect...
/etc/rc.d/rc.sshd stop
/etc/rc.d/rc.sshd start
work perfectly, but none of the changes I've made seem to be present. What I want to do is limit access to only myself (AllowUsers laura) and to disable sftp (by commenting out the appropriate Subsystem line).
Does anyone know what I have to do to have sshd restart with the changed config file?

Thanks!
Laura

Actually it should just do it.
Have you had a look at the log, and/or
changed the loglevel... ?

Cheers,
Tink

Call me crazy, but I can't even find where sshd dumps its logs to!
There's nothing in syslog about it, and I any variant of 'locate sshd | grep log' turns up nothing.

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Call me crazy,

Yo Crazy! :}

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There's nothing in syslog about it, and I any variant of 'locate sshd | grep log' turns up nothing.

Have a look at /var/log/messages ...

Cheers,
Tink

Ok, I found it ( :p ). I did this:

Code:

bash-2.05b# /etc/rc.d/rc.sshd stop

bash-2.05b# /etc/rc.d/rc.sshd start

bash-2.05b# exit

exit

bash-2.05b$ ssh chris@128.226.220.78

chris@128.226.220.78's password: 

Last login: Mon May  3 15:34:21 2004 from bing78.hillghjkl.binghamton.edu

Linux 2.4.20.



What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us

is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.



chris@cleopatra:~$ exit

logout

Connection to 128.226.220.78 closed.

bash-2.05b$

In other words, stopped the service, started the service, and attempted to log on as a user other than 'laura'. This should be completely against the 'AllowUsers laura' line in sshd_config, but for some reason, isn't.

The changes to /var/log/messages as all this was happening was this:

Code:

May  3 15:57:02 cleopatra -- MARK --

May  3 16:13:03 cleopatra sshd[1248]: Received signal 15; terminating.

May  3 16:13:14 cleopatra sshd[1927]: Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22.

May  3 16:13:41 cleopatra sshd[1930]: Accepted password for chris from 128.226.220.78 port 35836 ssh2

Can you make anything out of all this?

thanks,
Laura

Only if you addes your username but left the line commented ;}

Cheers,
Tink

nope, line's not commented. sorry :)