ad-hoc ssh agent + control persist

[Francois Durand]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Darren Tucker <dtucker at zip.com.au> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 07:10:22PM +0200, Francois Durand wrote:
> [...]
> > One deployment needs several ssh connections. For obvious performance
> > reasons using control persistance (ControlPersist=60 for instance) is
> > highly desirable.
> [...]
> > Any ideas on this ?
>
> use "ssh -Oexit" and "ssh-agent -k" to explicitly stop the connection
> and agent as the last steps of your script?
>


If I understand correctly, this completely nullify the control persistance
benefit, and not using control persistance in the first place would achieve
the same result, wouldn't it ?