On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday [ at ] crashcourse [ dot ] ca> wrote: > i think we've beaten this to death, and there is no easy way > to do it that i just missed. thanks for all the pointers. "I'm not dead yet..." If this is a case of ease of use during development have a look at the ControlPersist option on the client side. Set it high enough and you will only need to supply your password once a session. -- sg