[rancid] Re: Netscreen/OpenSSH interaction problem

[john heasley]

Tue, May 19, 2009 at 05:12:11PM -0400, Michael W. Lucas:
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 01:01:49PM -0700, john heasley wrote:
> > Tue, May 19, 2009 at 03:16:30PM -0400, Michael W. Lucas:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I've found myself inheriting responsibility for a stack of Netscreen
> > > boxes, and of course I want their configurations backed up.
> > > 
> > > There's a problem with interactions between newer versions of OpenSSH
> > > and Netscreens, however.  To SSH into a Netscreen with newer OpenSSH,
> > > you must add the option "-o ControlMaster=auto" to the SSH command
> > > line.
> > > 
> > > Is there any way to pass this option to the Rancid SSH command for my
> > > Netscreen hosts?
> > 
> > see sshcmd in cloginrc(5).  If I failed to disseminate that change to
> > all of the login scripts, we can fix that.
> 
> That was exactly it, thanks!
> 
> For anyone following along in the archives: you'll want to use a
> wrapper script much like the following.  Trying to escape spaces with
> backslashes, quote marks, etc., doesn't appear to work.
> 
> --
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> exec ssh -oControlMaster=auto $@
> --

i'd have expected
add sshcmd *	{ssh -o...}

would have done it