[patch] Threading support in ssh-agent

[Ángel González]

On 11/03/12 19:57, Alexander V Alekseev wrote:
>         Hi all!
>
>     I do not know openssh patch policy so I am just sending
> the patch to the mailing list. Sorry for inconvenience.
>     Ssh-agent seems to be too slow if you need to access thousands of
> servers. This is a simple patch to enable threading in ssh2
> authentication.
> Patch adds "-p numthreads" option and defaults to the number of
> processors.
>
>     I've tested it as I could, but unfortunately I could check it
> only in Linux environment. Though it shouldn't break anything.
>
>         Bye. Alex.
You concurrently access thousands of servers? O_O What's your use case?
How does your threaded ssh-agent work with keys requiring confirmation?
Would the user be flooded with a SSH_ASKPASS instance per thread?