Comments on: Subversion auth using SSH external key-pair http://blog.stone-head.org/subversion-auth-using-ssh-external-key-pair/ an act of subversive playful cleverness Sun, 06 Nov 2016 23:22:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.2 By: Rudy Godoy http://blog.stone-head.org/subversion-auth-using-ssh-external-key-pair/comment-page-1/#comment-403 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:48:00 +0000 http://blog.stone-head.org/?p=814#comment-403 Right, that’s a good point. Your approach is a lot more flexible, I’ll try it.

]]> By: Jeff Epler http://blog.stone-head.org/subversion-auth-using-ssh-external-key-pair/comment-page-1/#comment-402 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:05:00 +0000 http://blog.stone-head.org/?p=814#comment-402 This means you potentially need to set a different environment variable each time you change your svn project.

Instead, use ~/.ssh/config to set a different IdentityFile based on the host name, something like:

Host svn.example.com
IdentityFile %d/.ssh/id_rsa-svn.example.com

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