Looking a little deeper, it looks like OpenSSH has had this "oom never" line ever since Ubuntu 10.04 came out, and that Virtuozzo containers have had to modify this file all along. I never saw it before because my Virtuozzo provider had a pristine 10.04 image that they deployed -- I assume, with the "oom never" line commented out. So this was the first time that the package had been upgraded on my system, and it asked me if I wanted to "keep my changes" or "install the package maintainer's version".
So maybe this is not so much of a bug in OpenSSH as it is a quirk in Virtuozzo (that I did not know about at the time of upgrade). Not knowing what this "oom never" option is all about, I can not make that call. Alan Porter -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to openssh in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/707098 Title: "oom" change in 1:5.3p1-3ubuntu5 causes "operation not permitted" -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
