Oddness with agent forwarding and -i

[Markus Friedl]

On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 03:38:12PM -0700, Thomas Baden wrote:
> --- Jefferson Ogata <Jefferson.Ogata at noaa.gov> wrote:
> > I can't comment on whether this is really intended
> > behavior, but you can easily 
> > work around it by unsetting SSH_AUTH_SOCK before you
> > run ssh:
> > 
> > SSH_AUTH_SOCK= ssh -i foo...
> 
> Thanks a bunch; that seems to have done the trick. 
> I'm still curious to know whether the agent should be
> taking precedence over the -i command-line option,
> though.

because -i might require passphrases.