@anthropy @dalias dunno about the cloud folks, but a lot of the lower end providers will straight up boot a transient VM to mount your disk image within to rewrite static network config or reset credentials when actions are triggered in control panels. i, for one, do not enjoy rebooting my VM and finding that their control panel has rewritten network/interfaces or network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 without any sort of validation

>systemd v256 automatically runs sshd listening on a vsock interface in the global network namespace
>The official way to disable this behavior requires appending "systemd.ssh_auto=no" to the kernel boot line.

??? on the *kernel* command line? who thought this was acceptable??????