Agent forwarding failure when the socketdir was autodeleted

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Tue 2016-10-04 08:03:06 -0400, Andre Heinecke wrote:

> Using GnuPG 2.1.15 I'm trying to SSH into a remote machine with OpenSSH 6.7 as 
> described under:
>
> https://wiki.gnupg.org/AgentForwarding
>
> The problem is that the remote system uses systemd so /var/run/user/<uid> 
> exits and GnuPG will use it.
>
> But if I am not logged in or there is no gnupg process running. systemd 
> autodeletes /var/run/user/<uid>/gnupg this causes the remote forward of the 
> Socket to fail because the directory for the socket does not exist and SSH 
> won't create it. :-/

If you're not logged in, then how does the remote forward work?  aren't
you actually still logged in (via ssh) as long as your remote forward is
running?

    --dkg
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