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SSH Connection Sharing 2020-06-05T16:39:24-04:00 false
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If you're like me, you open a lot of different terminal sessions throughout your day. When it comes to SSH, I want these different sessions to share a connection rather than creating a new one each time.

To accomplish this, I have the following in my ~/.ssh/config file.

ControlMaster auto
ControlPersist no
ControlPath ~/.ssh/sockets/socket-%r@%h:%p
Option Description
ControlMaster Allows connection sharing
ControlPersist yes to keep connection up even when no clients are connected.
2s (or custom timeout) to keep the connection up for 2 seconds after no clients are connected.
no to disconnect immediately
ControlPath Where to store connection information. This should not be writable by other users.

You'll also need to create the sockets folder if you don't have it already setup.

mkdir ~/.ssh/sockets
chmod go-w ~/.ssh/sockets