> here is no way for me to put my own configuration in the system and still have it persist. For example I change things in sshd_config (to turn off password au

> here is no way for me to put my own configuration in the system and still have it persist. For example I change things in sshd_config (to turn off password auth), and PAM. This is now possible for SSH, btw. They finally support /etc/ssh/ssh[d]_config.d/ where you can add your customization files, and they won't be squashed by an OS update. So they finally picked up on the technique Linux has been using forever.