ssh key selection

[jasherai]

Scenario: You have multiple existing keys, but don't specify one on the commandline

Requested feature: Give you a choice of keys to use for this host (perhaps even the choice to create one specifically for this host? )

The creation of new keys could even be extended to create a single purpose key using COMMAND="XYZ" <--key --> on the remote box.

Opinions?

[mattwynne]

Sounds useful. Care to submit a patch?

[jasherai]

I'll definitely look into it :)

[hedgehog]

I think the changes in my pull request implement this:

Say key A exists, as ~/.ssh/id_rsa_a:

ssh-forever hedge@desktop -p 22 -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa_a -n cuken -a -q

Should not create a new key, but will add to your ~/.ssh/config

Host cuken
  HostName desktop
  User hedge
  PreferredAuthentications publickey
  IdentityFile /home/hedge/.ssh/id_rsa_a
  StrictHostKeyChecking false
  HostKeyAlias cuken

Let me know if that is what you had in mind.