Re: Problem with ssh identies

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am using the "command=" feature heavily as part of a backup system, which
> allows me to run commands on a remote server without allowing general
> function. I give the public key for a functionality to the server, add to
> authorized_keys, and can closely control the users. The key is chosen by use
> of the "-i" option to ssh.
>
> All of this has been working nicely for several years.
>
> However, it seems that ssh offers the default key *first* to the server,
> rather than the one specified on the command line. That's so bizarre I spent
> time checking that it really happened before asking here.
>
> So the question is, how can I get ssh to offer the key I give it in the
> command line first? Preferably as the only key offered, actually, but
> definitely before the default key, which on several machines drops me into
> another application.
>
> Is there some clever means or option I missed?
>

Have you tried the -F option instead?

//HW

> --
> Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
>  "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
> the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot
>
> --
> fedora-list mailing list
> fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
> Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
>

-- 
fedora-list mailing list
fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines


[Index of Archives]     [Current Fedora Users]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Yosemite News]     [Yosemite Photos]     [KDE Users]     [Fedora Tools]     [Fedora Docs]

  Powered by Linux