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...ig, or (in case there accidentally is valid sshd_config syntax) is unwanted. To verify the bug, apply appended patch to sshd_config (that prepends a long comment) and try to start ssh. You will see this: $ sudo /usr/local/sbin/sshd /usr/local/etc/sshd_config: line 2: Bad configuration option: ThisIsTheEndOfALongComment /usr/local/etc/sshd_config: terminating, 1 bad configuration options Note that it complains about line 2 though the offending comment is in line 1. It is worth mentioning that active configuration lines longer than 1023 chars work fine. (I discovered this bug when i commented out a long "M...