## Submitted by Petr Cerny [:hrosik] Assigned to **Xfce Bug Triage** **[Link to original bug (#10880)](https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10880)** ## Description Created attachment 5485 patch enabling passing the -a option to ssh-agent Sometimes it is useful to specify a path to ssh-agent socket (using the -a option) - for example if one is running terminal multiplexer session(s) and the ssh-agent quits (or dies) for some reason, respawning it with the same socket path allows reuse in the terminal multiplexer session, because the $SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable still points to a valid socket. The attached patch introduces new string property /startup/ssh-agent/socket in the xfconf channel which - if present - is interpreted as a path to the socket to be created. This patch does not address the case in which there already is a running agent listening on that socket - since then ssh-agent doesn't return any environment variables to be set. ~~**Patch 5485**~~, "patch enabling passing the -a option to ssh-agent": [xfce4-session-4.10.1-ssh_agent_socket_path.patch](/uploads/2d37a0b167db2be1609cbbbaf38f8342/xfce4-session-4.10.1-ssh_agent_socket_path.patch) Version: 4.10.1