Call for testing: OpenSSH 7.2
Salvador Fandiño
sfandino at gmail.com
Fri Feb 12 21:09:43 AEDT 2016
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> * ssh(1): refuse attempts to set ConnectionAttempts=0, which does
> not make sense and would cause ssh to print an uninitialised stack
> variable. bz#2500
When using connection multiplexing, I sometimes set ConnectionAttempts
to 0 in order to avoid opening a new connection when the remote side
refuses to create new sessions after the top defined by MaxSessions is
reached.
Having a way to avoid that fall-back behavior is important when writing
automation scripts. Otherwise, authentication prompts may appear at any
time, and scripts would have to cope with it.
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