From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pankaj Jangid Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to use =?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=98ssh?= -i =?utf-8?Q?=3Cidentity?= =?utf-8?Q?=5Ffile=3E=E2=80=99?= with Tramp? Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 19:40:23 +0530 Message-ID: <875ykze5yo.fsf@codeisgreat.org> References: <87bkure8s3.fsf@codeisgreat.org> <87pmj7ie6i.fsf@t14.reltub.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="35956"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:hBaIYjqc5Q51jAkX0A9AhCLoxRE= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 17 16:11:58 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o2Cha-00098o-2X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 17 Jun 2022 16:11:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39792 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o2ChZ-0002Vl-0a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 17 Jun 2022 10:11:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55064) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o2CgE-0002UZ-9N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jun 2022 10:10:34 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:44690) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o2CgC-0002uF-KW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jun 2022 10:10:34 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o2CgA-0007S8-Cu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jun 2022 16:10:30 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:137897 Archived-At: Leo Butler writes: > On Fri, Jun 17 2022, Pankaj Jangid wrote: > >> When I edit remote files using ssh with default options, it works fine. But >> now there is a requirement to use an identity_file with option -i. How to >> add this option when connecting using Tramp? >> >> On command line I connect using this command, >> >> ssh -i user@host > > I would create ~/.ssh/config and populate it with your command-line > options: > > #+begin_example > Host ssh-example-com > HostName ssh.example.com > User someone > Port 4321 > IdentityFile ~/.ssh/ssh.example.com > #+end_example Thanks. This works. And I found another option also. Use ssh-add to add the IdentityFile to ssh’s own store. And then use ssh as usual.