Re: Using multiple keys with ssh-agent

[Nick Hastings <hastings@bmail.kek.jp>]

Hi,

* Bill Moseley <moseley@hank.org> [030217 16:02]:
> 
> I want to be able to ssh into machine "remote" and have pine start
> automatically.  But I also want to be able to ssh in and have a normal
> shell.
> 
> So, I created a new key pair with:
> 
>      ssh-keygen -t dsa -f id_dsa_pine
> 
> then added the new public key to remote's .ssh/authorized_keys2 file.  I
> also prepended command="pine -i" to that new public key.
> 
> So, I can now go
> 
>    ssh remote
> 
> and get a remote shell.  Or I can type
> 
>    ssh -i id_dsa_pine remote

<snip>

Maybe I'm missing something but surely it would be easier to just have
the one key and then just run

ssh remote pine -i

Cheers,

Nick.

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