Why “SSHD” is being discussed
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I am sorry, a little? I am deeply disappointed that libc decided to do the same just with another sequence. And why because some dude was complaining sshd or whatever was crashi…
by throwawayffffas · Nov 5, 2026
> password logins enabled Disabling sshd password logins is security 101, and the default for some cloud provided images these days. If password logins haven't been disabled, wh…
by alexchamberlain · Nov 5, 2026
Alpine is mostly used in containers, where you don't run sshd anyway. It apparently doesn't use PAM by default though. OpenWRT also doesn't use PAM by default apparently, and th…
by VorpalWay · Nov 5, 2026
The whole story is a bit worse than this. Musl already worked around this type of failure . See the second-to-last line here: https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/…
by amluto · Nov 5, 2026
You don't typically run sshd in containers, instead you only run whatever single service you set up your container for. Sure there are native Alpine installs too, but that is fa…
by VorpalWay · Nov 5, 2026
Who's out there running sshd inside a docker container? It's almost MORE work than exec-ing into the container.
by tonnydourado · Nov 5, 2026
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SSHD can refer to:Solid-state hybrid drive (SSHD), a data storage device. Secure Shell daemon (sshd), a computer software Society for the Study of Human Development (SSHD), a US-based research society Read more on Wikipedia