Question

So I’ve installed CYGWIN on both machines.

If I do this it works:

ssh -i desktop_rsa root@remoteserver

This requires me to type in a password

ssh root@remoteserver

How do I change the default identity for ssh, so it picks up the right one?

I tried editing my known_hosts file looks something like this, with the identity at the end:

remote_server_ip ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2Esome_big_public_key_here0Dk44YdG///bz desktop_rsa

Thanks!

Answer 1

Edit your .ssh/config file by adding this:

Host remoteserver
IdentityFile desktop_rsa

Edit where remote server is your server you are connecting to and desktop_rsa is the path to your identity file. You can get more info on this with

man ssh_config

Or just google for ssh config.