My primary workstation runs the latest 11 workstation and my coworkers primary workstation runs the latest 10 LTS workstation.
He said that ssh tunneling is not working with ControlMaster (CM) and asked me to test, which I did and it worked fine. We then did a complete fresh install of 10.04 LTS on another box and sure enough ssh tunneling does not work with CM.
Example:
david@ubuntu:~/.ssh$ more config Host * ControlMaster auto ControlPath ~/.ssh/master-%r@%h:%p
ssh -l dingbat sshserver.host.com - enter my password
ssh -l dingbat sshserver.host.com -L 2222:another.host.com:22 - don't need to enter my password because of the control channel, which works fine...it just doesnt setup the tunnel on 10 LTS while it does on 11.
netstat -anp | grep 2222 - on 10 LTS there is no listening port while on 11 there is...and I couldn't find anything in the logs.
