Feature request: Allow to specify public key

[schklom]

My situation

I typically have about 5+ SSH keys loaded in my ssh-agent, without storing key files on my disk because they are loaded by KeePassXC (a password manager).

Problem

When I try to connect to a server, SSH goes through many keys before finding the good one, and the server refuses with the error Too many authentication failures.

Dealing with it outside VSCodium

To avoid this, my ~/.ssh/config specifies

Host aa
    User bb
    HostName cc
+   IdentityFile /abc/dd.pub

to indicate that I only want to try a single key (identified by the public key).

The corresponding ssh command would contain

ssh -i /abc/dd.pub bb@cc

Inconvenient solutions

Either

• store the private key in a file and get the passphrase by prompt or plaintext storage
• unload keys from ssh-agent

Request

Allow an option to specify a public key in order to narrow down the list of keys that ssh will try to use from the agent when it connects to remote servers.

[sangrepura]

It this extension being maintained (this issue is over a year old)? I just installed it and was surprised that I couldn't configure it to use my public key or my ~/.ssh/sconfig.

[schklom]

Last update in April. I don't think it is abandoned, I think the dev likely had a lot on their plate for the last few months, and this issue is not really an urgent one.