[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: OpenSSH-7.4p1-1

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Dec 20 23:46, Ismail Donmez wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 9:44 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > I've just updated the Cygwin version of OpenSSH to 7.4p1-1.
> >
> > This is primarily an upstream bugfix release.
> >
> > Below's the original release message.
> [...]
> >  * ssh(1): Add a proxy multiplexing mode to ssh(1) inspired by the
> >    version in PuTTY by Simon Tatham. [...]
> 
> Looks like this could be used for connection multiplexing on Cygwin.
> Since it doesn't seem to be documented I am not sure how one can test
> it, but ...
> 
> with
> 
> 
> Host *
> ControlMaster auto
> ControlPath ~/.ssh/master-%r@%h:%p
> 
> latte ~ > ssh i10z.com
> mux_client_request_session: read from master failed: Connection reset by peer
> Failed to connect to new control master
> 
> --> Fails as expected, lets retry.
> 
> latte ~ > ssh i10z.com
> mux_client_request_session: read from master failed: Connection reset by peer
> ControlSocket /home/ismail/.ssh/master-ismail@i10z.com:22 already
> exists, disabling multiplexing
> Welcome to Ubuntu 16.10 (GNU/Linux 4.8.0-30-generic x86_64)
> 
>  * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com
>  * Management:     https://landscape.canonical.com
>  * Support:        https://ubuntu.com/advantage
> Last login: Tue Dec 20 23:42:56 2016 from 2a02:810d:8ac0:a3c:de8:1380:f2c2:bc79
> 
> --> Started a new session and created the master too.
> 
> latte ~ > ssh -O proxy i10z.com
> Welcome to Ubuntu 16.10 (GNU/Linux 4.8.0-30-generic x86_64)
> 
>  * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com
>  * Management:     https://landscape.canonical.com
>  * Support:        https://ubuntu.com/advantage
> Last login: Tue Dec 20 23:43:02 2016 from 2a02:810d:8ac0:a3c:de8:1380:f2c2:bc79
> 
> --> Started a new session.
> 
> latte ~ > ssh -O proxy i10z.com
> Last login: Tue Dec 20 23:43:06 2016 from 2a02:810d:8ac0:a3c:de8:1380:f2c2:bc79
> 
> --> Voila, it used the existing connection!
> 
> And after that it indeed seems to be using the old connection as long
> as you specify -O proxy option.
> 
> Something to play with I guess.

Neat.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer                 cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat
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