feature request: single flag to unset ControlPath

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Mon Mar 17 22:16:05 EST 2008


On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Tom Spindler wrote:

> While it's real handy to have "ControlMaster auto" to have multiple
> sessions get muxed into one, sometimes it's really helpful to _not_
> use the same session (e.g. if you want to ssh -2fNR).
> 
> It'd be quite nice if there were a flag to tell openssh to not mux
> the new connection at all - i.e. what "ssh -o ControlPath=none"
> does.  (The 'obvious' invocation `ssh -S /dev/null` doesn't work
> unless you also specify `-o ControlMaster=no`

No, but "ssh -Snone [hostname]" does.

I really don't want to add more options...

-d


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