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So what would happen if I execute below command while I am still sshed to the host, would I still have remote login connectivity?<br />
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sudo /etc/init.d/sshd stop
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So what would happen if I execute below command while I am still sshed to the host, would I still have remote login connectivity?

sudo /etc/init.d/sshd stop

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If you run &quot;/etc/init.d/sshd stop&quot;, you will not disconnect from the machine. Your active session will be running until you disconnect by yourself.<br />
All new connections will be disabled.<br />
You can check the tree of running sshd daemons with<br />
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ps axf<br />

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If you run "/etc/init.d/sshd stop", you will not disconnect from the machine. Your active session will be running until you disconnect by yourself.
All new connections will be disabled.
You can check the tree of running sshd daemons with

ps axf


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I sshed to a box and executed following command, I didn't loose my sshd connectivity and was able to successfully restart the service. How was I able to do it? What happened beneath?<br />

<pre><code id="code-792947">sudo /etc/init.d/sshd restart
Password:
Stopping sshd:                                             [  OK  ]
Starting sshd:                                             [  OK  ]
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I sshed to a box and executed following command, I didn't loose my sshd connectivity and was able to successfully restart the service. How was I able to do it? What happened beneath?

How sshd restart works when I ssh to a box and restart sshd?

Telnet is an application layer protocol used on the Internet or local area networks to provide a bidirectional interactive text-oriented communication facility using a virtual terminal connection. SSH was designed as a replacement for Telnet and for unsecured remote shell protocols. The term telnet is also used to refer to the software that implements the client part of the protocol. SSH provides a secure channel over an unsecured network in a client-server architecture, connecting an SSH client application with an SSH server.