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Anonymous
3 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
3 years ago

Adding my voice to @jontyb's suggestion. Just to explain my own use-case, I (also) have keys stored in my vault that I don't want to have to archive to remove from eligibility.

I also want to have different default keys configured on my work laptop and my personal machine, but I'm ok with the current solution of referencing public keys in my ~/.ssh/config file to configure that.

I'm loving the SSH support in general, though - it was a lovely surprise last year!

Cheers,
Cos.