From: dtucker <dtucker@openbsd.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2021 07:27:03 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Mention using ssh -i for specifying the public key file in the case
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Mention using ssh -i for specifying the public key file in the case
where the private key is loaded into ssh-agent but is not present
locally.  Based on patch from rafork via github PR#215, ok jmc@
---

diff --git a/usr.bin/ssh/ssh.1 b/usr.bin/ssh/ssh.1
index 77502515b6a..2e009b25653 100644
--- a/usr.bin/ssh/ssh.1
+++ b/usr.bin/ssh/ssh.1
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@
 .\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
 .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.\" $OpenBSD: ssh.1,v 1.425 2021/07/28 05:57:42 jmc Exp $
-.Dd $Mdocdate: July 28 2021 $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ssh.1,v 1.426 2021/09/03 07:27:03 dtucker Exp $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: September 3 2021 $
 .Dt SSH 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -288,6 +288,10 @@ authentication.
 .It Fl i Ar identity_file
 Selects a file from which the identity (private key) for
 public key authentication is read.
+You can also specify a public key file to use the corresponding
+private key that is loaded in
+.Xr ssh-agent 1
+when the private key file is not present locally.
 The default is
 .Pa ~/.ssh/id_dsa ,
 .Pa ~/.ssh/id_ecdsa ,