Hi, I believe it would make more sense if, when specifying a key with -i, that key (or keys) should be tried prior to the keys in the agent. Otherwise, if I have many keys in my agent, the server will kick me out. I can see no situation where one would like to use agent keys instead of the ones explicitly stated. Do you agree? The workaround is of course to set the IdentitiesOnly option. Best regards (off list, please include me in reply) -- Max Thoursie