A simple Puppet manifest you can use to manage sshd configuration. The "file" stanza controls the owner, group, permissions and content of the sshd file. Note how line 13 (`source`) uses the `operatingsystem` fact to name the file to provide to the agent. The "service" stanza ensures that sshd is running on the agent system, so you'll always be …

ssh_init.pp

# === Authors
# Author Name <[email protected]>
#
# === Copyright
# Copyright 2013 Puppet Labs
#
class ssh {
  file { '/etc/ssh/sshd_config':
    ensure => present,
    owner  => 'root',
    group  => 'root',
    mode   => '0644',
    source => "puppet:///modules/ssh/sshd_config.${operatingsystem}",
    notify => Service['ssh']
  }

  service { 'ssh':
    ensure  => 'running',
    enable  => 'true',
  }
}