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Ah, and openssh uses the pid of the users sshd process (which acts as the ssh-agent proxy) as the file extension - so I can set ClientAliveInterval to get a prompter shutdown of the serverside process and check if the proxy is active before changing the symlink.

symcbean
– symcbean

2025-01-16 09:35:04 +00:00
Commented Jan 16 at 9:35
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@symcbean, probably that works too. I think you could also check with ssh-add and some suitable options to see if the agent works

ilkkachu
– ilkkachu

2025-01-16 10:47:03 +00:00
Commented Jan 16 at 10:47
I'd already got that far - but thank you for suggesting.

symcbean
– symcbean

2025-01-16 11:39:45 +00:00
Commented Jan 16 at 11:39

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