On Wed, 30 Apr 2014, Yves Martin wrote: > In my opinion, I would expect that ssh command outputs to stderr the "could > not open key file '/path/to/my/id_dsa': Permission denied" message when a > identity file is explicitly given in options. You neglected to mention which OpenSSH version you are using. Recent versions do warn: [djm@haru ~]$ ssh -i /root/xxx 127.0.0.1 Warning: Identity file /root/xxx not accessible: Permission denied. _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev