On Wed, 30 Sep 2020, raf wrote: > Hi, > > I have a VM with a git repository whose origin is on > github. I have several keys known to github, so I needed > to set git's core.sshcommand config parameter in the > repository to something like this: > > ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_ed25519_github2 > > But it meant that I needed to copy that key to the VM. > The same key is available via my forwarded ssh-agent > connection. Is it possible to tell ssh to use that > instead of the key in a file? The documentation for the > -i option only mentions files. ssh will read the public key (id_ed25519_github2.pub) to identify the key before it tries to use the private key (id_ed25519_github2). If the private key is available in the agent then it will never try to use the private key file. Summary: copy id_ed25519_github2.pub to your VM and the above command will work. -d _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
