ssh-agent and IdentityFile

[Tony Kay]

Phil,

Perfect. I don't know how I missed that.

Thanks!

Tony

P.s. Thanks to the other responders as well. The env variable trick
with multiple agents was the next best thing.

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Phil Pennock <phil.pennock at globnix.org> wrote:
> On 2011-12-13 at 14:52 -0800, Tony Kay wrote:
>> I've noticed that the ssh-agent applies any keys it already has
>> passwords for (via ssh-add) first, overriding the ssh config files for
>> preferred identity file from .ssh/config and -i. This seems a
>> documented behavior.
>
> ssh_config(5):
>     IdentitiesOnly
>             Specifies that ssh(1) should only use the authentication identity
>             files configured in the ssh_config files, even if ssh-agent(1)
>             offers more identities.  The argument to this keyword must be
>             ``yes'' or ``no''.  This option is intended for situations where
>             ssh-agent offers many different identities.  The default is
>             ``no''.
>