Connection caching?

[Markus Friedl]

On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 02:29:40AM -0400, Jefferson Ogata wrote:
> John Davidorff Pell wrote:
> >Can I ask you (or someone else) to define "session"? I can think of a 
> >number of reasons that a single shell/pipe can carry many different 
> >"sessions".
> >
> >Just trying to follow the discussion, and this part is a little 
> >confusing. :-)
> >
> >On 3 May 2004, at 22:36, Jefferson Ogata wrote:
> >
> >>It is a reasonable expectation for an admin to be able to say: one 
> >>authentication authorizes one session.
> 
> It is a reasonable expectation for an admin to be able to say: one 
> successful authentication authorizes only one shell channel.

i don't think so.

this one shell can start another multiplexer and you can still
run multiple shells after one successful authentication (e.g.
with screen(1) or window(1) or even job control).