openssh unix dev - Oct 2000 - bug with -i

The code that handles identity files listed on the command line only
adds the files to the options.identity_files array, which is for RSA
keys.  If you use the SSH2 protocol and have a DSA identity, you
cannot specific it with -i on the command line.

On 26-Oct-00 at 23:43:16 Eric Youngblut wrote:
> The code that handles identity files listed on the command line only
> adds the files to the options.identity_files array, which is for RSA
> keys.  If you use the SSH2 protocol and have a DSA identity, you
> cannot specific it with -i on the command line.
> 
To avoid this I used the ssh '-o' option and instead of using
'-i' used:

   '-o "IdentityFile2 ~/.ssh/backups"'

(this was from our backups script).

HTH

John.

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