[patch] Threading support in ssh-agent

[alex at alemate.ru]

On Sun, 11 Mar 2012, Ángel González wrote:

> 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?
 	Large server farm. Todays web services usually require some ;-)

> How does your threaded ssh-agent work with keys requiring confirmation?
> Would the user be flooded with a SSH_ASKPASS instance per thread?
 	We do not use it.