Bug#550260: add reference to control master to environment of slave sessions

[martin f krafft]

Package: openssh-client
Version: 1:5.1p1-8
Severity: wishlist

It would be good if a slave session had in its environment
a reference to the master session (e.g. the pts of the master, or
similar). This could solve #350898 and alleviate #480266 somewhat.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-rc6-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages openssh-client depends on:
ii  adduser                3.111             add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.27            Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                   1.15.4            Debian package management system
ii  libc6                  2.9-27            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcomerr2             1.41.9-1          common error description library
ii  libedit2               2.11-20080614-1   BSD editline and history libraries
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.7dfsg~beta3-1   MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii  libk5crypto3           1.7dfsg~beta3-1   MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - C
ii  libkrb5-3              1.7dfsg~beta3-1   MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libncurses5            5.7+20090803-2    shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libssl0.9.8            0.9.8k-5          SSL shared libraries
ii  passwd                 1:4.1.4.2-1       change and administer password and
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages openssh-client recommends:
ii  openssh-blacklist             0.4.1      list of default blacklisted OpenSS
ii  openssh-blacklist-extra       0.4.1      list of non-default blacklisted Op
ii  xauth                         1:1.0.3-2  X authentication utility

Versions of packages openssh-client suggests:
ii  gtk-led-askpass [ssh-askpass] 0.10-2     GTK+ password dialog suitable for
pn  keychain                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  libpam-ssh                    <none>     (no description available)

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