Answer by Gabriella Gonzalez for Command Line SSH restart Mac OSX Mountain Lion
You can restart sshd on macOS by running:sudo launchctl kickstart -k system/com.openssh.sshdThis command slightly improves on launchctl stop because this does not rely on sshd automatically starting...
View ArticleAnswer by Charles Jie for Command Line SSH restart Mac OSX Mountain Lion
The question and answers seen here are too old (2012-2013). I tried them in Ventura (released in 2022) but none do work.I conclude my testing on my two mac's (10.11.6/El Capitan@2016 and...
View ArticleAnswer by glenschler for Command Line SSH restart Mac OSX Mountain Lion
There is no reason to 'unload' the sshd service, when instead you can just 'Stop' the sshd service. It will restart on it's own.sudo launchctl stop com.openssh.sshd
View ArticleAnswer by James Webster for Command Line SSH restart Mac OSX Mountain Lion
I couldn't confirm Ansgar's answer worked as there were no messages / obvious signs though I'm confident it did.I also found killall sshd which kills and restarts sshd processes with the disadvantage...
View ArticleAnswer by Ansgar Wiechers for Command Line SSH restart Mac OSX Mountain Lion
See this answer to a similar question on ServerFault. The command should be the same in Mountain Lion.You can stop the service using the 'unload' subcommand.sudo launchctl unload...
View ArticleCommand Line SSH restart Mac OSX Mountain Lion
How can I restart the SSH service via the command line on Mac OSX Mountain Lion please?Using ps aux | grep 'ssh', I was able to deduce that the process is most likely /usr/sbin/sshd. From here I...
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