https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2196
--- Comment #3 from Felix Kaiser <[email protected]> --- Is there any reason not to have your main key in id_rsa (other than aesthetics)? I can actually think of one: in conjunction with IdentitiesOnly in .ssh/config, to make SSH not try *any* key by default (lest the wrong key end up in the wrong SSH servers logs). But these users wouldn't want ssh-copy-id to pick a key by default either, so that's ok. Anyway, in my opinion ssh-copy-id is just a (very useful) auxiliary tool and so should follow OpenSSHs conventions, rather than invent its own. I suspect that the vast majority of users expect it to do, instead of the newest key. So here's my suggestions: 1. Move the file (And if you *really* want SSH to use a different key by default, explicitly configure that in .ssh/config with "Host *". You can still override it on a per-host basis.) 2. If you can't, use a symlink 3. If you can't, use a shell alias -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug. _______________________________________________ openssh-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-bugs
