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Detect sshd service name or make configurable

See original GitHub issue

Handler:

- name: reload sshd configuration
  service:
    name: sshd
    state: reloaded

Fails with: Could not find the requested service sshd: host

On distros where the service name is ssh.

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 2 years ago
Comments:6 (4 by maintainers)

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aarononealcommented, Feb 7, 2022

@lae

Release

lsb_release -d
Description:	Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
uname -a
Linux node 5.13.19-3-pve #1 SMP PVE 5.13.19-7 (Thu, 20 Jan 2022 16:37:56 +0100) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Source

https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/bullseye/main/installer-amd64/current/images/

Systemd

systemctl status sshd
Unit sshd.service could not be found.

systemctl status ssh
● ssh.service - OpenBSD Secure Shell server
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/ssh.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)

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aarononealcommented, Feb 7, 2022

Good find! I didn’t realize that was handled with an alias.

It is also in my /lib/systemd/system/ssh.service file.

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Alias=sshd.service

I see it was under Install, so I did this:

systemctl enable ssh.service

And now it works with the alias:

systemctl status sshd
● ssh.service - OpenBSD Secure Shell server
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/ssh.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)

So it appears this would only be an issue for folks who don’t have SSH on boot enabled (an admittedly rare case).

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction.

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