Re: New ssh v2 and authentication

["Gary Hennigan" <glhenni@sandia.gov>]

"Tom Gilbert" <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk> writes:
> > That did the trick! The worst part about it is there's no mention of
> > this in the man page. It talks about using identity.pub as default but
> > nothing about specifying a different file.
> 
> 
> SYNOPSIS
>      ssh-add [-lLdD] [file ...]
> 
> DESCRIPTION
>      ssh-add adds RSA or DSA identities to the authentication agent,
>      ssh-agent(1).  When run without arguments, it adds the file
>      $HOME/.ssh/identity.  Alternative file names can be given on the command
>      line.
> [...]

Why not mention explicitly that you can use id_rsa.pub and id_dsa.pub
to add those to your agent? It explicitly mentions identity.pub as a
default. 

Sorry, but I like things spelled out, especially when it's something
that I use so infrequently that I've long since forgotten the details
of what these commands actually do.

Gary