On Sun, Jan 9, 2022 at 8:11 AM Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote: > > Tzafrir Cohen wrote on Sat, 08 Jan 2022 09:06 +00:00: > > I accidentally deleted my ssh-agent's socket from /tmp. The agent is > > still running and I have $SSH_AGENT_PID and $SSH_AUTH_SOCK set in > > various processes, so I know where it should have been. > > > > Is there any way to recover the socket? Short of restarting the X > > session, of course. > > Could you just spawn a new ssh-agent instance and have it use > $SSH_AUTO_SOCK as the name of the socket, and re-add private keys to it? > $SSH_AGENT_PID would still point at the old instance, sure, but what > would that break?
In the past, I did something similar, which partially worked - I started a new ssh-agent with its defaults, and linked the newly-created socket to the old location. Actually what I did was in a slightly different flow - I had my X session killed for some reason, but had screen/tmux sessions in the background. I logged in again to a new X session, attached the screen/tmux's, and wanted to be able to start X clients/windows from shells there. I don't remember anymore what didn't work perfectly, but I do remember that I eventually closed the old screen/tmux's and started new ones, due to some annoyances I didn't bother debugging further. Good luck, -- Didi _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
