Linux Administration Cookbook

How it works...

We said our edit command created a new directory and file, in which override commands can be placed; you can now visit this by changing to it:

$ cd /etc/systemd/system/sshd.service.d/$ ls override.conf

Within our override file, our new entries are stored. These entries generally complement those in the primary configuration file.

Breaking our new configuration down, we have the following:

[Unit]Description=OpenSSH server daemon slightly modifiedDocumentation=man:ssh-additionalRequires=sshd-keygen.service

Here we've added a short description of what the file is, showing it's slightly modified. There's a fake manual page entry, which we've suggested might be a good place for documentation when we get around to writing it. ...