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Is there any way to work around the inability to customize launchagent plists in El Capitan without completely disabling system integrity protection?

Specifically, I was sad to find that my ssh-agent timeout had been removed, and horrified that I couldn't put it back. I see other q&a on how to reboot in recovery mode and disable SIP, but that seems a bit drastic... is there some other workaround?

I don't have great knowledge around launchctl as a whole; is there a way to set a -t option some other way than editing /System/Library/LaunchAgents/org.openbsd.ssh-agent.plist?

Can I disable the system-configured agent and set it up under ~/Library/LaunchAgents? Would that lose any functionality compared to the system agent?

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  • Why don't you just disable SIP, apply all necessary adjustments and reenable SIP afterwards again? – klanomath Oct 29 '15 at 17:15
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    I'm hoping to avoid needing multiple reboots to and from recovery mode just to change the default ssh-agent timeout. Obviously that is a solution... but it has a strong "theres gotta be a better way to do this" smell to it. – danwyand Oct 29 '15 at 17:20

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