Configure OpenSSH to reuse ssh connections

Configure ssh client (OpenSSH) to reuse connections using ControlMaster, ControlPath and ControlPersist directives.

Example

ControlMaster auto
ControlPath ~/.ssh/sockets/%C
ControlPersist 10h
#ControlPersist 36000

Change log

OpenSSH 4.2: September 1, 2005 https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-4.2

• Added ControlMaster=auto/autoask options to support opportunistic multiplexing (see the ssh_config manpage for details).

Related terms

• MaxSessions
• Stop session multiplexing: ssh -O stop
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20410252/how-to-reuse-an-ssh-connection
• https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSSH/Cookbook/Multiplexing
• pipelining in /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
• RemoteCommand
• mkdir -p ~/.ssh/sockets

See also

• /etc/ssh/ssh_config, ~/.ssh/config (man), RemoteCommand, RequestTTY, ServerAliveInterval, UseKeychain, ForwardAgent, ProxyJump, ControlMaster, ControlPath, ControlPersist
• sshd, sshd logs, sshd -t, sshd -T, sshd_config, sftp, SSH_CLIENT, sshd changelog
• OpenSSH (changelog): /etc/ssh/sshd_config | /etc/ssh/ssh_config | ~/.ssh/ | openSSL | sshd logs | sftp | scp | authorized_keys | ssh-keygen | ssh-keyscan | ssh-add | ssh-agent | ssh | Ssh -O stop | ssh-copy-id | CheckHostIP | UseKeychain, OpenSSF, ~/.ssh/authorized_keys