Can I disable IdentityFile?

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Sun Jun 5 16:45:11 AEST 2022


On Fri, 3 Jun 2022, M Rubon wrote:

> I would like to ensure that I connect with mysever only using a
> specific agent and never an IdentityFile.  (It turns out that I had
> accidentally been authenticating using one of the implicit
> IdentifyFile locations in .ssh)
> 
> I want my imaginary ssh configuration to be the equivalent of
> host myserver
>     IdentityAgent /tmp/agentformyserver
>     IdentityFile never
> 
> I have tried setting an explicit "IdentityFile /dev/null" and
> "IdentityFile /tmp/id_rsa_IGNORED".  Ssh then ignores the
> IdentityAgent and fails because the IdentityFile is empty or
> rightfully not recognized by myserver.
> 
> Is there another way to do this?

IdentityFile=none should work


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