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Jamie Hutber
Jamie Hutber

Reputation: 28096

Bad configuration option: ServerAliveInterval

I have just got a new server and was trying to make sure the ServerAliveInterval was long enough so I didn't keep getting thrown out.

root@server:~# sudo sshd -T
/etc/ssh/sshd_config: line 31: Bad configuration option: ServerAliveInterval
/etc/ssh/sshd_config: terminating, 1 bad configuration options
root@server:~# ssh -V
OpenSSH_6.6.1p1 Ubuntu-2ubuntu2.7, OpenSSL 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014

Why do I still get this error even though I'm up to do and have OpenSSH

Upvotes: 4

Views: 6562

Answers (2)

Dylan Chen
Dylan Chen

Reputation: 3

Perhaps it's an existing bug for WSL

Workaround with below command

sudo sed -i 's/ServerAliveInterval/ClientAliveInterval/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/server_alive.conf
sudo service ssh restart
 * Restarting OpenBSD Secure Shell server sshd                                                              [ OK ]

Upvotes: 0

Jakuje
Jakuje

Reputation: 25966

Server option is called ClientAliveInterval as per manual page for sshd_config.

Upvotes: 12

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