Announce: OpenSSH 5.6 released

[Alan Barrett]

On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, Bert Wesarg wrote:
> Particular for this new feature. But I miss an important feature. I
> need a LocalCommand equivalent, which is only executed once per
> session (i.e. by the multiplex master). I use this to mount file
> systems from the remote per sshfs. My ControlCommand patch [1] does
> have allow this. I could rework this path, so that it only has this
> feature.

In the introduction to your patch, at
<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openssh.devel/16018>, you say:

" I don't want my interactive ssh shell session or git/svn sessions
" to act as master processes, so that they may hang after I started a
" second session.  So I would need to start a master process with 'ssh
" -nNfM' first and than my interactive session. And I would like to
" automate this.

Older versions of the ControlMaster patch (back when it was unofficial)
did have that problem, but openssh-5.6 puts the master process into the
background, so you should no longer hve any need to run "ssh -nNfM"
first.

--apb (Alan Barrett)