[X2Go-User] Global ssh-agent

Hi,

I would like to use ssh-agent globally for X session (Debian/MATE if it matters). X session starts it itself and when I login to X locally it works as expected (SSH_AGENT_PID and SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variables are set correctly). But if I connect to the host via x2go, strange things happen: in any terminal session SSH_AUTH_SOCK points to non-existing path and SSH_AGENT_PID is not set at all. I tried to work around this adding to ~/.bashrc:

if [ ! -S ~/.ssh/ssh_auth_sock ]; then eval ssh-agent -s ln -sf "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ~/.ssh/ssh_auth_sock fi export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=~/.ssh/ssh_auth_sock

This way SSH_AUTH_SOCK is correct but SSH_AGENT_PID is surprisingly unset somethere. Any idea how to fix that?

• Dmitry Bely