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ssh-ed25519: ................ (~/.ssh/id_ed25519)

~/.ssh/id_ed25519 is non-existent on my system, and I want to configure this to use the correct key I have for the nest associated with a different pubkey (on a hardware key - not a local private key!). Setting this up in ~/.ssh/config works:

Host nest.pijul.com
    IdentitiesOnly yes
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/something.pub

Generation of the default identity doesn’t use the referenced key, rather it makes a new one (silently) in ~/.config/pijul/identities/default/ with what looks like a custom undocumented (in the https://nest.pijul.com/pijul/manual/ ) format 🙃

@Nuke It’s my understanding that the key that is part of the identity (.config/pijul/identities/…) is not the same as the SSH key that is used to connect with nest.

is non-existent on my system

I believe it’s thrussh, getting the list of identities from the ssh-agent, but not their file names for some reason, I also have a completely different name for my key (yet matching signature), and pijul decided to call it id_ed25519 anyway.