Connection caching?

Markus Friedl markus at openbsd.org
Sat May 22 01:15:52 EST 2004


On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 03:22:58PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote:
> On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 01:44:52PM +0200, Markus Friedl wrote:
> > > It is a reasonable expectation for an admin to be able to say: one 
> > > successful authentication authorizes only one shell channel.
> > 
> > i don't think so.
> > 
> > this one shell can start another multiplexer and you can still
> > run multiple shells after one successful authentication (e.g.
> > with screen(1) or window(1) or even job control).
> 
> Unless it's a restricted/custom shell, in which case the shell can
> be tailored to not allow multiplexing.

we could add an option for the # of parallel
sessions that are allowed over a single ssh session.

currently there's a random limit of 10 sessions.




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