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
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