Attempting to reproduce the missing etcmerge from 15.0 to 15.1 upgrade

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Created a working test jail — This provides an isolated environment to safely experiment and reproduce issues.
Modified /etc/pam.d/sshd — Demonstrates how changes can be made, highlighting potential areas where system upgrades might conflict. Fique de olho
Further testing with different modifications in /etc/pam.d/sshd could reveal more about upgrade compatibility.

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This post documents my attempt to reproduce the problem outlined in FreeBSD – /etc/pam.d/sshd was updated/overwritten – no merge attempt FYI, this bug report was created before I did this work: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?

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