[BUG] Setting ssh_timeout seems to have no effect

[EugeniuZ]

Description
Settingssh_timeout: 120 in salt-master config does not change the ConnectTimeout value for ssh commands.

Expected behavior
ConnectTimeout is changed to the value of ssh_timeout.

Versions Report

Salt Version:
          Salt: 3004.1
 
Dependency Versions:
          cffi: Not Installed
      cherrypy: unknown
      dateutil: 2.8.1
     docker-py: Not Installed
         gitdb: 4.0.9
     gitpython: 3.1.24
        Jinja2: 3.0.3
       libgit2: Not Installed
      M2Crypto: 0.38.0
          Mako: Not Installed
       msgpack: 1.0.3
  msgpack-pure: Not Installed
  mysql-python: Not Installed
     pycparser: Not Installed
      pycrypto: Not Installed
  pycryptodome: 3.11.0
        pygit2: Not Installed
        Python: 3.10.4 (main, Jun 29 2022, 12:14:53) [GCC 11.2.0]
  python-gnupg: 0.4.8
        PyYAML: 5.4.1
         PyZMQ: 22.3.0
         smmap: 5.0.0
       timelib: Not Installed
       Tornado: 4.5.3
           ZMQ: 4.3.4
 
System Versions:
          dist: ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish
        locale: utf-8
       machine: x86_64
       release: 5.15.0-1013-aws
        system: Linux
       version: Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish

Additional context

2022-08-09 14:01:00,613 [salt.utils.reactor:85  ][DEBUG   ][2583674] Gathering reactors for tag salt/cloud/i-ffffffffffffffff/deploying
...
2022-08-09 14:01:00,637 [salt.loaded.int.utils.cloud:1488][DEBUG   ][2583674] Deploying 10.xx.xx.xx at 2022-08-09 14:01:00
2022-08-09 14:01:00,637 [salt.loaded.int.utils.cloud:740 ][DEBUG   ][2583674] Attempting connection to host 10.xx.xx.xx on port 22
2022-08-09 14:01:00,729 [salt.loaded.int.utils.cloud:1493][DEBUG   ][2583674] SSH port 22 on 10.xx.xx.xx is available
...
2022-08-09 14:01:00,730 [salt.loaded.int.utils.cloud:1175][DEBUG   ][2583674] Attempting to authenticate as ubuntu (try 1 of 15)
2022-08-09 14:01:00,731 [salt.loaded.int.utils.cloud:2480][DEBUG   ][2583674] SSH command: 'ssh -oStrictHostKeyChecking=no -oUserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -oControlPath=none -oPasswordAuthentication=no -oChallengeResponseAuthentication=no -oPubkeyAuthentication=yes -oIdentitiesOnly=yes -oKbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -i /etc/salt/keys/private_key.pem -oConnectTimeout=15  -p 22 ubuntu@10.xx.xx.xx date'

[OrangeDog]

The ssh_ settings in the master config only apply to salt-ssh, not to any other SSH connection.

[EugeniuZ]

So maybe this is more like a feature request? (configure ConnectionTimeout and/or number of retries before giving up)

[OrangeDog]

Salt Cloud has a separate ssh_timeout setting, as far as I can see: #60632

I'm not sure where it would be documented, if it is.

[EugeniuZ]

Setting ssh_timeout in /etc/salt/cloud and restarting salt-master didn't change the connection timeout. It is still 15 seconds.

[OrangeDog]

Assigning to @cmcmarrow as the author of the feature.

[cmcmarrow]

Yea, this sounds like a Feature. We should just reuse ssh_timeout and pass it to the connection time.

[cmcmarrow]

We need to handle timeout and ssh-timeout we are crossing them and excluding one or the other depending on what function you are using, all with in the same module.