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...*and* in the agent, and it should try them in > the order they were supplied. If you're running into a situation > where this doesn't work, then it is likely you are either using a > version prior to that behaviour or there's a bug in it. > ??? I have seen ssh-agent as a transparen means to avoid the same password dialog again and again. ssh chooses which keys to try, looking at the host name/IP address on the command line. The "Host" constructs in the config file make sure that options set for one host don't affect others. You mean this not the case for Identi...

Hi folks, I've got a moderate number of keys in my ssh config file. Problem: Very often I get an error message like Received disconnect from 2001:db8::8077 port 999:2: Too many authentication failures Authentication failed. AFAIU the ssh-agent is to blame here, trying out all keys he has ever seen. This conflicts with MaxAuthTries 6, set by default on the peer. The solution seems to be to