Change openssh private key order

[Christian Weisgerber]

On 2019-11-07, Mel Pilgrim <list_freebsd at bluerosetech.com> wrote:

> I have rsa keys and an ed25519 keys.  They're both made available via an 
> ssh-agent.  All keys are in the authorized_keys files of the servers in 
> question except for a few legacy cases that only have the rsa keys due 
> to lacking ed25519 support.
>
> I want the connections to prefer the ed25519 keys over the rsa keys, but 
> looking at debug output, the RSA keys are always tried first.

The keys are offered to the remote host in the order in which they
are held in ssh-agent.  If you load the Ed25519 key first...

$ ssh-add .ssh/id_ed25519 .ssh/id_rsa

... it will be preferred over the RSA key.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy at mips.inka.de