Normally, it’s common to configure multiple SSH keys git Git access, but there are situations where you need to use a specific key. In this case, you don’t want to let ssh just choose the first working key, you want it to use a specific SSH identity. The use case that I had was that for a certain set of source repositories, I wanted to use a particular key because that specific key was approved by a particular GitHub organization.

A few notes and rants about managing SSH keys with HP’s extremely annoying iLO interface. The iLO ssh console does not support fetching SSH keys over HTTPS. This prevents you keeping them somewhere useful like github. When you upload a SSH key and it fails, the iLO web interface will tell you that it needs a PEM-formatted DSA public key. You will find that ssh-keygen has no way to produce this.