[OpenIndiana-discuss] Dead Horse Beating: zfs send doesn't await rem login

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"Joshua M. Clulow via openindiana-discuss"
<openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> writes:


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> There are a number of things going on here.  The "zfs send" command

[...] snipped excellent and thorough explanation of what was happening
Thank you

> If you type your password and press enter, I expect the SSH connection
> will then complete and data will start to flow through to the remote
> site.  Otherwise, if you left it for, say, a half hour, I would expect
> the "zfs send" process will continue to emit progress reports that say
> nothing has moved, and SSH will continue to block waiting for a
> password.

I can now confirm that the above statement is true.

> I would recommend using SSH keys, FWIW, not passwords.  They avoid
> this issue, and are in general at least somewhat more secure!

I can also confirm that the zfs send recv command benifits greatly
from instituting ssh keys.