> Port 22 That should have been
Port 2222 Additionally, when I reviewed the `permit-root-login` debconf settings against the postinst I got a bit confused. In `create_sshdconfig` it says if [ "$permit_root_login" != true ]; then sed -i 's/^#*PermitRootLogin .*/PermitRootLogin yes/' \ "$new_config" fi My debconf setting for `$permit_root_login` is `true` so the `$new_config` is left untouched and has a #PermitRootLogin prohibit-password It took me a second think to realize that `prohibit-password` still permits root logins. However, what left me dumb-founded was that if I were to change `permit-root-login` to any value other then `true`, even `false` or `no` (debconf says it's a boolean), that that would change `$new_config` to have PermitRootLogin yes FWIW, PermitRootLogin supports four values. I find the debconf/postinst behavior *very* unintuitive, so I didn't change my debconf answers and put PermitRootLogin no in a `/etc/ssh/ssdh_config.d/*.conf` snippet so it takes precedence, per `man 5 sshd_config`, no matter how the postinst changes the `$new_config`.