Package: openssh-client Version: 1:6.7p1-3 Severity: normal What actually happens is that ssh-copy-id tries to run this code, expecting it to fail:
REMOTE_VERSION=$(ssh -v -o PreferredAuthentications=',' "$@" 2>&1 | sed -ne 's/.*remote software version //p') However, if an existing control master is open, and ssh is configured to use it, this will /not/ fail, leaving you controlling an ssh connection to the remote host, without seeing any of the output (since it's being piped into sed), making it look like ssh-copy-id has hung. I think most (or maybe all) of the ssh invocations in ssh-copy-id should probably just pass -o ControlPath=none since using an existing control master is not desireable in those cases. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.17-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_ZA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_ZA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages openssh-client depends on: ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii dpkg 1.17.21 ii libc6 2.19-13 ii libedit2 3.1-20140620-2 ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.12.1+dfsg-15 ii libselinux1 2.3-2 ii libssl1.0.0 1.0.1j-1 ii passwd 1:4.2-3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2 Versions of packages openssh-client recommends: ii xauth 1:1.0.9-1 Versions of packages openssh-client suggests: pn keychain <none> pn libpam-ssh <none> ii monkeysphere 0.37-1 ii ssh-askpass 1:1.2.4.1-9 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org