Bug#698390: autossh: init.d script

2014-07-24 Thread Kevin Locke
Hello autossh maintainers, Just wanted to express my support for including the patch in the autossh package. I was about to write an initscript for autossh for my own use before finding this bug report, but I've found the attached script serves my purposes quite well and the quality seems very

Bug#698390: autossh: init.d script

2014-07-24 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Kevin and LluĂ­s, Kevin Locke wrote: Just wanted to express my support for including the patch in the autossh package. I was about to write an initscript for autossh for my own use before finding this bug report, but I've found the attached script serves my purposes quite well and the

Bug#698390: autossh: init.d script

2014-07-24 Thread Kevin Locke
Hi Axel, On 07/24/2014 09:03 AM, Axel Beckert wrote: Kevin Locke wrote: Just wanted to express my support for including the patch in the autossh package. I was about to write an initscript for autossh for my own use before finding this bug report, but I've found the attached script serves my

Bug#698390: autossh: init.d script

2014-07-24 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Kevin, Kevin Locke wrote: But I'm curious why it might be dangerous. Is it a security concern or from a connection-stability perspective? Security concern. Starting SSH sessions from init scripts will need SSH keys without passphrase. IMHO this always needs much care so that the private

Bug#698390: autossh: init.d script

2014-07-24 Thread Kevin Locke
On 07/24/2014 09:33 AM, Axel Beckert wrote: Kevin Locke wrote: But I'm curious why it might be dangerous. Is it a security concern or from a connection-stability perspective? Security concern. Starting SSH sessions from init scripts will need SSH keys without passphrase. IMHO this always

Bug#698390: autossh: init.d script

2013-01-17 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: autossh Severity: wishlist Tags: patch The maintainers of the autossh package received the attached mail. Forwarding it to the BTS to better be able to track this. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert a...@debian.org, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian