Specification of identity for ssh client to use

Alan Barrett apb at cequrux.com
Tue Dec 6 01:44:51 EST 2005


On Tue, 06 Dec 2005, Darren Tucker wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 03:18:49PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> > [...] So I want to specify on the ssh command
> > line exactly which identity to use; I don't want the client to do just
> > keep trying multiple identities until one of them works, because then it
> > may use an identity that has the wrong "command=" restrictions on the
> > server side.
> 
> Does adding the "IdentitiesOnly" option do what you want?

No, that just tells it "don't consult ssh-agent".  The identity that
I want to use will sometimes be available from ssh-agent, and not
available in any readable files.

--apb (Alan Barrett)




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