On Sun, 30 Oct 2016, David wrote: > DESCRIPTION > ssh-add adds private key identities to the authentication agent, > ssh-agent(1). When run without arguments, it adds the files > ~/.ssh/id_rsa, ~/.ssh/id_dsa, ~/.ssh/id_ecdsa, ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 > and ~/.ssh/identity.
Yep. Read it. And assumed that it looks for _any_ or all of those names. As I have ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 present I thought that would work. > I take that to mean that it *only* searches for those file names. I base > this on the fact that I don't use any of those names and I don't get any > prompt when I run ssh-add directly. If I give the full path and the > non-conventional name as an argument to ssh-add, it loads just fine. Well, as far as I know I'm not using any non-conventional name since I told ssh-keygen to use ed25519. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
