Wierd monit/sshd interaction

[Mark Ferlatte]

I have monit configured to restart sshd if it dies/gets killed by
accident.  This appeared to be a good idea, except that if monit
restarts ssh, only root can login afterwards; every other user gets
rejected with:

Received disconnect from 192.168.0.1: 2: bind: Permission denied


I'm running monit 2.5, OpenSSH 3.4p1, on Debian 3.0 (aka woody),
Linux kernel 2.4.18.

My monitrc is:

check sshd with pidfile /var/run/sshd.pid
        start program = "/etc/init.d/ssh start"
        stop program = "/etc/init.d/ssh stop"
        alert address@hidden


If I log into the machine in question as root, and restart ssh by hand,
non-root users can then log in fine.

Has anyone else experienced this problem, or have a solution?

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