Comments on: Making SSH connections to your frequent remote hosts faster with ControlMaster

By: Jon Daley

Jon Daley — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:51:51 +0000

I also recently learned about this (thanks Linux Journal), but they have an improvement on your steps. If you set ControlMaster to auto, it will do the right thing, whether or not a previous connection already exists.

That way, the first time you connect, it does the normal thing and asks for a password or passphrase, etc. but the second time it doesn’t.

I haven’t tried it, but I suspect that I wouldn’t really like the -f -N method.

By: Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:07:47 +0000

Interesting, and cool! Thanks Phil =)

Look forward to more SSH tips & tricks.

By: Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:05:28 +0000

Interesting, and cool! Thanks Phil =)

Look forward to more SSH tips.

By: Phil Dufault

Phil Dufault — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:11:44 +0000

Unfortunately, this feature is only available in OpenSSH. PuTTY doesn’t have this feature.

By: Chloe@Highchairs

Chloe@Highchairs — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:59:26 +0000

I use win when at work and putty for ssh’ing into the remote servers, do you know how these settings can be put into putty?

By: Phil Dufault

Phil Dufault — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:59:22 +0000

Might be possible to use the ssh client that comes with Cygwin to do this, Mike. Not sure though.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:57:46 +0000

I had no idea this was possible, too bad it’s only if you’re using the UNIX SSH command, would be awesome to have something like this on windows.