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Xelynega on Jan 3, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: iTerm2 critical security release

There's something inherently unsafe with replacing an industry-standard security tool with anything.

I don't think it's inconvenient enough to type `ssh -i key_file name@host` that we need to be creating more security risk to skip typing it.

wkat4242 on Jan 3, 2025 [–]

> I don't think it's inconvenient enough to type `ssh -i key_file name@host` that we need to be creating more security risk to skip typing it.

Also, you can easily configure that in your .ssh/config file, even with different options per host or group of hosts.

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