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Break an unresponsive SSH Session or put it in the background
9 points by sown on Oct 2, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment
There's a few listed in the man page. neat.

     The supported escapes (assuming the default ‘~’) are:

     ~.      Disconnect.

     ~^Z     Background ssh.

     ~#      List forwarded connections.

     ~&      Background ssh at logout when waiting for forwarded connection / X11 sessions to terminate.

     ~?      Display a list of escape characters.

     ~B      Send a BREAK to the remote system (only useful for SSH protocol version 2 and if the peer supports it).

     ~C      Open command line.  Currently this allows the addition of port forwardings using the -L, -R and -D options (see above).  It also allows the cancella‐
             tion of existing port-forwardings with -KL[bind_address:]port for local, -KR[bind_address:]port for remote and -KD[bind_address:]port for dynamic port-
             forwardings.  !command allows the user to execute a local command if the PermitLocalCommand option is enabled in ssh_config(5).  Basic help is avail‐
             able, using the -h option.

     ~R      Request rekeying of the connection (only useful for SSH protocol version 2 and if the peer supports it).

     ~V      Decrease the verbosity (LogLevel) when errors are being written to stderr.

     ~v      Increase the verbosity (LogLevel) when errors are being written to stderr.


For the benefit of people that don't use this already you should stress you need to press "Return", then type "~?", or whatever.

If you press ~ without a preceding carriage-return it will be sent over the wire, as per any other keystroke.




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