Feature suggestion: sftp over ssh client in a single connection

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Tue Jul 12 21:19:20 EST 2005


Timo Lilja wrote:
> It has always bugged me that if I want to use a shell and perform some
> file transfers in a single host I have to take two SSH connections:
> one for the shell via ssh(1) and one for the file transfer via
> sftp(1). 

Already done, using session multiplexing. See "ControlMaster" and
"ControlPath" in ssh_config(5).

-d




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