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? _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
