Specification of identity for ssh client to use

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Tue Dec 6 09:20:15 EST 2005


On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Alan Barrett wrote:

> On Tue, 06 Dec 2005, Darren Tucker wrote:
> 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.

Specify it as an IdentityFile in .ssh/config - ssh should try keys in 
the order in which they are listed, preferring ones in the agent if 
they are present.

-d




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