## Context The drop-in SSH hardening task uses `validate: "sshd -t -f /etc/ssh/sshd_config"`. Ansible's template module requires `%s` in validate commands and rejects any command that doesn't contain it. Since this is a drop-in file in `sshd_config.d/`, not a full config, validating the temp file standalone isn't meaningful anyway. ## Goals / Non-Goals **Goals:** - Fix the Ansible error so the playbook runs without failure **Non-Goals:** - No changes to SSH hardening settings or the drop-in file content ## Decisions Remove `validate` entirely. The drop-in is 6 simple key-value lines. If there's a syntax issue, `systemctl reload ssh` will fail and leave the existing working config in place. ## Risks / Trade-offs - [No pre-validation of config syntax] → Mitigation: the drop-in contains only 6 well-known sshd directives. Any typo would be caught immediately on reload, and sshd won't restart if the full config is invalid.