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Former Member
4 years agoAbility 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...
floris_1P
1Password Team
4 years ago@Gudlyf No, it's really the public key! That would otherwise defeat the purpose of having this built-in SSH agent 😅.
IdentityFile is indeed most famous for its use with private keys, but you can also use with public keys, so that the private keys never have to leave the SSH agent.