Proposed enhancement: forward controlling terminal

Darren Tucker dtucker at zip.com.au
Mon Sep 18 09:53:07 EST 2006


Matt McCutchen wrote:
> Dear OpenSSH people,
> 
> It would be nice if SSH could forward the client's controlling
> terminal to the remote process in addition to the client's stdin and
> stdout.  This way, if the user wants to run a process through sudo on
> the remote machine while redirecting stdin and stdout locally (ssh B
> sudo foo <in >out), sudo would be able to read a password from the
> user.  Ditto if the process is invoked through two steps of SSH (ssh B
> ssh C foo <in >out).  Similarly, rsync over SSH would work properly
> with --rsync-path="sudo rsync" or --rsh="ssh B ssh".  See this thread
> on the rsync mailing list:

How would that be different from "ssh -t server" and "ssh -tt server" 
that have been in ssh(1) for a quite some time?

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