Bug#454787: openssh-client: Let the ssh master linger
Package: openssh-client
Version: 1:4.6p1-5
Severity: wishlist
I'd like to see an option "ControlMasterLinger" which would tell ssh to
stick around a bit longer after the end of a master connection, so that
a subsequent attempt to connect can reuse the previous connection.
Currently, I often need to do a manual `ssh' to my CVS server for the sole
purpose of establishing a master connection so that my subsequent cvs commands
go through that connection. The option I ask for would make it unnecessary
to create this explicit master connection: the first ssh process run by
cvs would setup the master connection and subsequent ones would reuse it,
as long as the time between them is short enough (I'd probably use a linger
time in the order of a couple of hours).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages openssh-client depends on:
ii adduser 3.105 add and remove users and groups
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.17 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.14.7 package maintenance system for Deb
ii libc6 2.7-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcomerr2 1.40.2-1 common error description library
ii libedit2 2.9.cvs.20050518-4 BSD editline and history libraries
ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.3~beta1-2 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii libncurses5 5.6+20071013-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-1 SSL shared libraries
ii passwd 1:4.0.18.1-11 change and administer password and
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-6 compression library - runtime
openssh-client recommends no packages.
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