On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 1:40 PM raf <ssh@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 03:35:43PM +1000, Damien Miller <djm@xxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > 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 > > Hi Damien, > > Thanks. That's brilliant. > It should get a mention in the manpage. > I've attached a patch for ssh.1. > > However, I've just tried it and it didn't work for me. :-( > > $ git config core.sshcommand > ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_ed25519_github2 > > $ ls -l ~/.ssh/id* > -rw-r--r-- 1 raf raf 110 Dec 19 2019 > /home/raf/.ssh/id_ed25519_github2.pub > > $ cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519_github2.pub > ssh-ed25519 > AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIHrmJ0gYTmZlilDBB/BsyOHqOT354aDLWgULmMPXRkJK > user@xxxxxxxxxx > > $ ssh-add -L > ssh-ed25519 > AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIHrmJ0gYTmZlilDBB/BsyOHqOT354aDLWgULmMPXRkJK > user@xxxxxxxxxx > [...] > > $ git pull > Warning: Identity file /home/raf/.ssh/id_ed25519_aps_github not > accessible: No such file or directory. > ERROR: Repository not found. > >From where this id_ed25519_*aps*_githubfile coming? > > _______________________________________________ > openssh-unix-dev mailing list > openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev > -- Danishka Navin _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
