diff --git a/recipes-connectivity/openssh/files/sshd_config
b/recipes-connectivity/openssh/files/sshd_config
deleted file mode 100644
index 1c33ad0..0000000
--- a/recipes-connectivity/openssh/files/sshd_config
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,118 +0,0 @@
-#	$OpenBSD: sshd_config,v 1.102 2018/02/16 02:32:40 djm Exp $
-
-# This is the sshd server system-wide configuration file.  See
-# sshd_config(5) for more information.
-
-# This sshd was compiled with PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
-
-# The strategy used for options in the default sshd_config shipped with
-# OpenSSH is to specify options with their default value where
-# possible, but leave them commented.  Uncommented options override the
-# default value.
-
-#Port 22
-#AddressFamily any
-#ListenAddress 0.0.0.0
-#ListenAddress ::
-
-#HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
-#HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key
-#HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key
-
-# Ciphers and keying
-#RekeyLimit default none
-
-# Logging
-#SyslogFacility AUTH
-#LogLevel INFO
-
-# Authentication:
-
-#LoginGraceTime 2m
-#PermitRootLogin prohibit-password
-#StrictModes yes
-#MaxAuthTries 6
-#MaxSessions 10
-
-#PubkeyAuthentication yes
-
-# The default is to check both .ssh/authorized_keys and
.ssh/authorized_keys2
-# but this is overridden so installations will only check
.ssh/authorized_keys
-#AuthorizedKeysFile	.ssh/authorized_keys
-
-#AuthorizedPrincipalsFile none
-
-#AuthorizedKeysCommand none
-#AuthorizedKeysCommandUser nobody
-
-# For this to work you will also need host keys in /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts
-#HostbasedAuthentication no
-# Change to yes if you don't trust ~/.ssh/known_hosts for
-# HostbasedAuthentication
-#IgnoreUserKnownHosts no
-# Don't read the user's ~/.rhosts and ~/.shosts files
-#IgnoreRhosts yes
-
-# To disable tunneled clear text passwords, change to no here!
-#PasswordAuthentication yes
-#PermitEmptyPasswords no
-
-# Change to yes to enable challenge-response passwords (beware issues with
-# some PAM modules and threads)
-ChallengeResponseAuthentication no
-
-# Kerberos options
-#KerberosAuthentication no
-#KerberosOrLocalPasswd yes
-#KerberosTicketCleanup yes
-#KerberosGetAFSToken no
-
-# GSSAPI options
-#GSSAPIAuthentication no
-#GSSAPICleanupCredentials yes
-
-# Set this to 'yes' to enable PAM authentication, account processing,
-# and session processing. If this is enabled, PAM authentication will
-# be allowed through the ChallengeResponseAuthentication and
-# PasswordAuthentication.  Depending on your PAM configuration,
-# PAM authentication via ChallengeResponseAuthentication may bypass
-# the setting of "PermitRootLogin without-password".
-# If you just want the PAM account and session checks to run without
-# PAM authentication, then enable this but set PasswordAuthentication
-# and ChallengeResponseAuthentication to 'no'.
-UsePAM yes
-
-#AllowAgentForwarding yes
-#AllowTcpForwarding yes
-#GatewayPorts no
-#X11Forwarding no
-#X11DisplayOffset 10
-#X11UseLocalhost yes
-#PermitTTY yes
-#PrintMotd yes
-#PrintLastLog yes
-#TCPKeepAlive yes
-#UseLogin no
-#PermitUserEnvironment no
-Compression no
-ClientAliveInterval 15
-ClientAliveCountMax 4
-#UseDNS no
-#PidFile /var/run/sshd.pid
-#MaxStartups 10:30:100
-#PermitTunnel no
-#ChrootDirectory none
-#VersionAddendum none
-
-# no default banner path
-#Banner none
-
-# override default of no subsystems
-Subsystem	sftp	/usr/libexec/sftp-server
-
-# Example of overriding settings on a per-user basis
-#Match User anoncvs
-#	X11Forwarding no
-#	AllowTcpForwarding no
-#	PermitTTY no
-#	ForceCommand cvs server
diff --git
a/recipes-connectivity/openssh/files/sshd_config.d/50-selinux.conf
b/recipes-connectivity/openssh/files/sshd_config.d/50-selinux.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..775a24d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-connectivity/openssh/files/sshd_config.d/50-selinux.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+# 50-selinux.conf
+#
+# SELinux-specific SSHD configuration overrides
+# Managed by the meta-selinux layer in OpenEmbedded
+
+# Set this to 'yes' to enable PAM authentication, account processing,
+# and session processing. If this is enabled, PAM authentication will
+# be allowed through the ChallengeResponseAuthentication and
+# PasswordAuthentication.  Depending on your PAM configuration,
+# PAM authentication via ChallengeResponseAuthentication may bypass
+# the setting of "PermitRootLogin without-password".
+# If you just want the PAM account and session checks to run without
+# PAM authentication, then enable this but set PasswordAuthentication
+# and ChallengeResponseAuthentication to 'no'.
+UsePAM yes
diff --git a/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_selinux.inc
b/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_selinux.inc
index 07c25c5..259753d 100644
--- a/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_selinux.inc
+++ b/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_selinux.inc
@@ -2,5 +2,17 @@ inherit enable-selinux enable-audit

 FILESEXTRAPATHS:prepend := "${THISDIR}/files:"

+SRC_URI += " \
+    file://50-selinux.conf \
+"
+
+do_install:append() {
+    install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/ssh/sshd_config.d
+    install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/sources-unpack/50-selinux.conf \
+        ${D}${sysconfdir}/ssh/sshd_config.d/
+}
+
+FILES:${PN} += "${sysconfdir}/ssh/sshd_config.d/50-selinux.conf"
+
 PACKAGECONFIG[selinux] = "--with-selinux,--without-selinux,libselinux"
 PACKAGECONFIG[audit] = "--with-audit=linux,--without-audit,audit"