Bug 1621 - [patch] support -oControlMaster=required
Summary: [patch] support -oControlMaster=required
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Portable OpenSSH
Classification: Unclassified
Component: ssh (show other bugs)
Version: 5.2p1
Hardware: Other Linux
: P2 normal
Assignee: Assigned to nobody
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Reported: 2009-07-19 04:57 AEST by Colin Walters
Modified: 2020-01-26 01:01 AEDT (History)
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0001-Add-ControlMaster-required-option.patch (2.23 KB, patch)
2009-07-19 04:57 AEST, Colin Walters 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description Colin Walters 2009-07-19 04:57:12 AEST 
Created attachment 1663 [details]
0001-Add-ControlMaster-required-option.patch
Comment 1 Damien Miller 2020-01-25 18:55:03 AEDT 
Is this still desired? If so we could renovate this patch
Comment 2 Colin Walters 2020-01-26 01:01:58 AEDT 
At the time, I was working on a GUI ssh app (for Unix) - that was...a long time ago.  I think it still makes sense - the idea with the app is that it heavily used SSH channels, and tries to ensure you only have one.

I think this patch could still make sense - if e.g. some software using SSH wants to interleave ssh and sftp executed as subprocesses, you really want to ensure that sftp reuses the channel.

But on the other hand, sophisticated apps today are probably using libssh instead.

I'm unlikely to rebase this patch myself, but thanks for following up anyways!