SSH sessions continue to be alive after deamon is stopped

[manojampalam]

• sshd.exe -r
• Start a remote session
• Ctrl+C deamon
• Remote session is still active (as the forked child sshd.exe is not terminated)

[manojampalam]

I see that the relevant code to abort server sessions is currently commented out. We can take care of it later.

[ariscop]

This is intended, at least on unix, so the daemon can be restarted without killing active sessions

[nachfuellbar]

I think forked children should continue to run
i.e. if you change sshd configuration and you want to restart the daemon to apply settings

[ariscop]

Could do something like a service stop kills active sessions, but restart does not? i'm not familiar enough with windows services to know if thats possible

[nachfuellbar]

Maybe this is possible

Just want to know:
Is stopping connections on stopping of daemon needed (or really wanted)?
On linux i kill all ssh processes if i need to (doesn't happen too often)
Mostly i kill specific sessions; till now i've never needed all open connections to be closed on sshd restart or stop

[manojampalam]

Differentiating between stop service and restart service is not possible. I'll close this given similar functionality in Linux.