Bug#335697: openssh-client: option to open/close a master connection automatically

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>]

Package: openssh-client
Version: 1:4.2p1-5
Severity: wishlist

The OpenSSH client should have an option to open an independent master
connection automatically when there isn't one already, and close it
when the last slave ssh connection closes.

The problem with "ControlMaster auto" is that closing the first ssh
connection (i.e. the master one) closes all the slave connections.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13.4-20051012
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages openssh-client depends on:
ii  adduser             3.77                 Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2. 1.4.58               Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                1.13.11.0.1          package maintenance system for Deb
ii  libc6               2.3.5-7              GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcomerr2          1.38-2               common error description library
ii  libedit2            2.9.cvs.20050518-2.2 BSD editline and history libraries
ii  libkrb53            1.3.6-5              MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libncurses5         5.5-1                Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libselinux1         1.26-1               SELinux shared libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8         0.9.8a-2             SSL shared libraries
ii  zlib1g              1:1.2.3-6            compression library - runtime

openssh-client recommends no packages.

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