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How to log in with a specific SSH key — ssh -i

You have several keys and this server must get exactly one of them.

Every flag and config keyword was checked against the OpenSSH 9.6 man pages, and the config examples were parsed for real with ssh -G.

ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 deploy@example.com   # use exactly this private key
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