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Former Member
3 years agoAbility to specify which key to use (otherwise: Too many authentication failures)
I was perplexed as to why I could not SSH into a system earlier today. It looks like ssh is simply trying all of the keys in my vault, one after another, though never getting to the one it needs befo...
floris_1P
1Password Team
3 years agoThis is unfortunately how the SSH agent protocol works. You don't 'add keys for host XYZ', you just 'add keys' and your SSH client will try them all one by one. The SSH config is there if you want to do explicit matching, but that's only needed if you have more than 6 different keys or if you want to keep things strictly separated.
We do see that there are a few alleys open for us to improve the experience in area, which we are currently investigating. So stay tuned!
And @Ekami67, could you describe what there is to revert or why that's needed?