Equivalent ssh_config setting for "ssh -N"

[Jack Dodds]

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Oops.  You wanted an ssh option - not sshd.

Sorry.

Jack Dodds <brmdamon at hushmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Volker,
> 
> I use 
> 
> ForceCommand /bin/false
> 
> On my Debian system, /bin/false is a program that does nothing
> and returns a non-zero return code (i.e. an error code).
> 
> Jack
> 
> 
> Volker Diels-Grabsch <v at njh.eu> wrote:
> > Dear OpenSSH developers,
> > 
> > Is there an equivalent ssh_config setting for the command line
> > option
> > 
> >     ssh -N ...
> > 
> > ?
> > 
> > I want to connect to a server that doesn't provide an
> > interactive shell but allows for port forwarding only. I'd love
> > to configure this into my ~/.ssh/config as follows:
> > 
> >     Host foo
> >         Hostname ...
> >         Port ...
> >         User ...
> >         LocalForward ...
> >         LocalForward ...
> >         LocalForward ...
> >         SomeSettingEquivalentToDashN yes
> > 
> > so I can call it via "ssh foo" instead of "ssh -N foo".
> > 
> > Are there good reasons not to provide such a setting?
> > Or, would you accept a patch that introduces such a setting? If
> > so, how sould this setting be named?
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Volker
> >

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