Connection caching?

[Jefferson Ogata]

Christian Vogel wrote:
> Hi Jefferson, hi openssh-unix-dev,

Hi, Christian...

> Isn't a configuration option "MaxNumberOfChannels" exactly what you are looking for
> Jefferson? Set it to 1 and it would do what you expect, disabling the use of more than
> one concurrent session. Seems easy to implement to me, would that be accepted
> by the maintainers? Is my view of the ssh-protocol to naive? :-)
> 
> This could have either semantic of:
> 
> 	- allow only N concurrent channels at a time
> 	- limit the creation of channels in one session to N

I was thinking something along those lines. But I believe port forwarding, X11 
forwarding, agent forwarding, and perhaps other activities each consume a 
"channel" throughout the life of an established ssh session. What's really 
needed is a limit on the number of shell channels allowed in a single ssh session.

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