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Re: why multiple password prompts?

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Mar 29, 2008, 22:05 UTC
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<20080329220543.GD30851@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 02:37:00PM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote:
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> That's cool - didn't know a rework of the ssh interactions had
> happened. It would be really good if we could detect if there's an
> existing "master" connection and piggyback over that (see options -M
> and -O). Reading man ssh_config it looks like we may be able to say
> something along the lines of " -o ControlMaster=auto ".

I have been using this for at least a year with git; just put "ControlMaster auto" into your .ssh/config.

-Peff
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