in case you want to access different servers with different public keys like id_rsa or id_dsn. 1. create inside your .ssh directory the file config with permission 600. $ touch ~/.ssh/config $ chmod 600 ~/.ssh/config 2. for example edit this file like this: Host myserver1.com User dude1 IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_A Host myserver2.com User root IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_B 3. each id_rsa_ file holds one public key 4. if you have the same username like on the host server than you can just use: ssh myserver1.com inf not use: ssh dude1@myserver1.com

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How to use multiple ssh public keys?

in case you want to access different servers with different public keys like id_rsa or id_dsn. 1. create inside your .ssh directory the file config with permission 600. $ touch ~/.ssh/config $ chmod 600 ~/.ssh/config 2. for example edit this file like this: Host myserver1.com User dude1 IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_A Host myserver2.com User root IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_B 3. each id_rsa_ file holds one public key 4. if you have the same username like on the host server than you can just use: ssh myserver1.com inf not use: ssh dude1@myserver1.com 07.12.13

http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1810

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