byobu and ssh-agent

Question

byobu cannot connect to ssh-agent socket well. actually I can make just one connection via ssh-agent but if I try to establish another ssh connection using the agent, it doesn't work. I've tried

setenv SSH_AUTH_SOCK `echo $SSH_AUTH_SOCK`

in ~/.byobu/profile but it didn't work as well.

Answer 1

This issue is detailed in Bug #664059, and solved for byobu versions 3.7 and above.

Basically, there is an incorrect assumption that /var/run/screen/S-$USER/ will exist and be writable at the point at which the SSH socket needs to be set. So I moved the symlink to the SSH socket to $HOME/.byobu/.ssh-agent.

Answer 2

There is a bug report #616899 which sounds similar to your problem. They suggest to download byobu v3.1 and manually install it.