Any way to over-ride the "-q" option to debug a possible race condition?

[Laurence Marks]

Thanks, very nice and it even works

#!/bin/bash
a=`echo $@ | sed -e 's/-q//'`
ssh $a


On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Flavien <flavien-ssh at lebarbe.net> wrote:
> Laurence Marks ecrivait :
>> [...]
>>
>> The most obvious thing I can think of to do is include LogLevel DEBUG
>> in my .ssh/config to try and trace what is going on, but the ssh
>> process is being launched with a "-q" embedded in it which is
>> over-riding this. I am hopeful that there is something I can set to
>> short-circuit the "-q", although I realise that the chance of their
>> being some undocumented option is small (but finite).
>>  [....]
>
> If you cannot change the command line that calls ssh with "-q", a
> warkaround can be to change the ssh binary itself to a wrapper that
> calls ssh without the "-q".
> Just move the binary to ssh.bin, and have a small shell script named
> ssh that removes the "-q" option before "exec"-ing ssh.bin.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Flavien.



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