On Mon, 21 Sep 2015 18:49, n...@esperi.org.uk said:

> (It's not that the fs doesn't allow for special files -- it's that it's
> distributed, but the semantics of AF_UNIX socket creation assume that it
> isn't.)

Depends on the file system.  At least some NFS versions don't allow
special files at all.

> Useful! ... though this seems more likely to be *used* if it applied to
> all assuan sockets at once, rather than one at a time.

That would require a lot of changes.  The redirect file approach is
mostly a wrapper and works transparently on the client site.

> It seems to work much better now, though of course only assuan can
> follow these links, so your SSH_AUTH_SOCK has to point at wherever you
> pointed them, as does your ssh agent forwarding.

Right, but you have to set SSH_AUTH_SOCK yourself anyway.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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