Re: SSH agent access

On 2006-01-19, Richard E. Silverman <res@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As for a better way: you set your SSH_AUTH_SOCK to a constant value, say
> ~/.ssh-agent, and maintain that as a symlink to the current agent socket
> as part of the login process that starts the agent.

You don't even need the symlink: you can specify the location of the socket
when you start the agent (ssh-agent -a /path/to/socket).

If you have a shared home dir (eg NFS /home) then you probably want to
stick the hostname somewhere in the path, though.

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