diff --git a/myshell_load_x2go_tokenforward b/myshell_load_x2go_tokenforward
index e2a7dd6..419c307 100644
--- a/myshell_load_x2go_tokenforward
+++ b/myshell_load_x2go_tokenforward
@@ -15,7 +15,9 @@ if [ -n "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ] && \
         chown $USER ~/.x2go/agentsocket
         # write file name of agent socket into file
         loginfo "old agentsock $( cat ~/.x2go/agentsocket)"
-        echo $SSH_AUTH_SOCK > ~/.x2go/agentsocket
+        #echo $SSH_AUTH_SOCK > ~/.x2go/agentsocket
+        rm ~/.x2go/agentsocket
+        ln -s $SSH_AUTH_SOCK ~/.x2go/agentsocket
         loginfo "write SSH_AUTH_SOCK (${SSH_AUTH_SOCK}) to ~/.x2go/agentsocket"
 fi