Attempting to reproduce the missing etcmerge from 15.0 to 15.1 upgrade

This post documents my attempt to reproduce the problem outlined in FreeBSD – /etc/pam.d/sshd was updated/overwritten – no merge attempt I have a working test jail: testingmerge Snapshot of 15.0 [12:11 r730-03 dvl /usr/local/share] % zfs list | grep testingmerge data01/jails/testingmerge 374M 7.62T 374M /jails/testingmerge [12:16 r730-03 dvl /usr/local/share] % sudo zfs snapshot data01/jails/testingmerge@clean-15.0 [12:16 r730-03 dvl /usr/local/share] % The jail configuration is simple: testingmerge { host.hostname = "testingmerge"; ip4.addr = 10.55.0.90; persist; } Not shown Get the jail started. I also did, but not critical to reproducing the problem Enable and start ssh. Add a user for ssh testing Alter /etc/pam.d/sshd Add the following to the end of /etc/pam.d/sshd – for testing I think any line will do, even a comment. session optional pam_exec.so /usr/local/sbin/hare 10.55.0.10 Even if you don’t install that binary, an ssh login will generate this message: dvl@testingmerge:~ $…