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Tip: Enforce specific key usage for a single SSH connection

In case you have to access a very restricted SSH server which only accepts a single key (ie. the one which is set up in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys) and otherwise fails, its the easiest to set the specific key in your local ~/.ssh/config file as follows:

Host very.secure.server
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_dsa
    IdentitiesOnly true

The second entry, IdentitiesOnly, forces SSH to only use known identity files and not look for more available identities f.e. from a running ssh_agent instance (which are always tried in first instance as it seems).