ssh-agent and IdentityFile

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 12/13/2011 05:52 PM, Tony Kay wrote:
> Host=hostAAdmin
> Hostname=repos.example.com
> IdentityFile=userb
> 
> Of course, these key files are password protected.

Have you tried setting IdentityFile to userb.pub instead of userb and
loading userb into the agent?  The .pub files (containing only the
public key) will not be password-protected.  I was told by a colleague
that specifying the .pub form let her ssh client prioritize which of the
several keys she had loaded into her agent she would offer to the server
first.

I haven't had a chance to test it myself yet, nor do i remember what
version of OpenSSH my colleague was using.

If it works for you (or doesn't), please report back!

hth,

	--dkg

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