Oddness with agent forwarding and -i

[Thomas Baden]

Jefferson Ogata <Jefferson.Ogata at noaa.gov> wrote:
> If a key in agent is more accessible than the key
> named with -i, the user would presumably simply
> refrain from passing -i.

> The current behavior is weird because if you have a
> key with a specific command= setting and a generic
> shell key, agent may authenticate with the generic
> key even though you set -i. There is an option to
> ignore agent keys, or you can just unset
> SSH_AUTH_SOCK as I noted earlier, but I think it's
> counter-intuitive that a key explicitly specified
> with -i isn't at least tried ahead of anything in
> agent.

That's what I thought, hence why I asked the question
of the list.

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Cheers,
-Thomas


	
		
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