This is not just Fedora specific behavior. I ran into this a few days ago on a 
Mac after adding a bunch of keys to my agent (one per AWS region). Even if you 
specify a key with “-i” it will still go for the agent, resulting in an Auth 
failure. Not sure if specifying a key in the config will over ride it though, I 
didn’t try that. 

The fact that SSH prioritizes the agent over a manually specified key 
definitely smells like an upstream bug though. That’s not just counter 
intuitive that’s a blatant disregard of an explicit command specified by the 
user. 

Cheers!
Eric

> On Nov 22, 2017, at 19:33, Todd Zullinger <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Tom Horsley wrote:
>>> On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 00:06:11 +0100 cen wrote:
>>> 
>>> Anyone doing linux admin or dev work has more than 5 keys in their .ssh 
>>> directory, rendering the agent completely USELESS PIECE OF SHIT PROGRAM.
>> 
>> Why? I do lots of linux admin work and I only have two keys. 
> 
> I use a different key for each organization I'm working for/with.  I have a 
> personal key, one for Fedora packaging, one for github, another for 
> bitbucket, and several for different companies where I perform admin work.
> 
> You can certainly use one or two keys for all of that, but I don't think it's 
> the best practice to do so.  Not everyone feels the same, but it's far from 
> unusual to have quite a few keys.
> 
> -- 
> Todd
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