[openssh-commits] [openssh] 03/03: upstream: Mention using ssh -i for specifying the public key file

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commit 8d1d9eb6de37331e872700e9e399a3190cca1242
Author: dtucker at openbsd.org <dtucker at openbsd.org>
Date:   Fri Sep 3 07:27:03 2021 +0000

    upstream: Mention using ssh -i for specifying the public key file
    
    in the case where the private key is loaded into ssh-agent but is not present
    locally.  Based on patch from rafork via github PR#215, ok jmc@
    
    OpenBSD-Commit-ID: 2282e83b0ff78d2efbe705883b67240745fa5bb2
---
 ssh.1 | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ssh.1 b/ssh.1
index 77502515..2e009b25 100644
--- a/ssh.1
+++ b/ssh.1
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@
 .\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
 .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.\" $OpenBSD: ssh.1,v 1.425 2021/07/28 05:57:42 jmc Exp $
-.Dd $Mdocdate: July 28 2021 $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ssh.1,v 1.426 2021/09/03 07:27:03 dtucker Exp $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: September 3 2021 $
 .Dt SSH 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -288,6 +288,10 @@ authentication.
 .It Fl i Ar identity_file
 Selects a file from which the identity (private key) for
 public key authentication is read.
+You can also specify a public key file to use the corresponding
+private key that is loaded in
+.Xr ssh-agent 1
+when the private key file is not present locally.
 The default is
 .Pa ~/.ssh/id_dsa ,
 .Pa ~/.ssh/id_ecdsa ,

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