Connection caching?

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> said:
> One you have established a SSH transport, you can fire off lots of
> sessions (command, shell or subsystem) which have independant
> lifespans. Our client only supports a single such session, but
> Our sshd already has this capability and I believe that the
> ssh.com windows client supports multiple connections against
> OpenSSH sshd.

The Perl Net::SSH module supports this (although the Net::SFTP module
doesn't support using an open Net::SSH connection).  This is very useful
when scripting things, as you only have to deal with opening a
connection and authenticating once.
-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.