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Anonymous
4 years ago

Ability to specify which key to use (otherwise: Too many authentication failures)

I was perplexed as to why I could not SSH into a system earlier today. It looks like ssh is simply trying all of the keys in my vault, one after another, though never getting to the one it needs befo...
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Anonymous
4 years ago

Yes, you can specify the key to use via IdentityFile in the .ssh/config file. You can view the keys by running


SSH_AUTH_SOCK="$(readlink -f ~/Library/Group\ Containers/*.com.1password/t/agent.sock)" ssh-add -l

You'll see an line per key in the form of


KEY_SIZE SHA256:KEY_HASH FILE_NAME (KEY_TYPE)

Set your IdentityFile equal to the FILE_NAME and it will use that key.