Using ESCA key to login by --ssh argument

[a2d8a4v]

It seems that we can not use wp-cli to remote with ECSA key?

If we want to log in some instance like AWS ec2 or instance in Google Computer Engine, It is necessary to create a SSH key first. And then login by command like this:
ssh -i /path/to/key.pem user@ipaddress -p port

but a little pity about using --ssh on wp-cli is that, It seems like we cannot allocate the path to key file for login using.

[schlessera]

Indeed, this is currently not possible. I looked into the before_ssh hook, but that is useless here, I don't see any way of injecting this additional argument with the current code.

However, you can provide per-host configuration of the identity file in your configuration file (usually ~/.ssh/config): https://man.openbsd.org/ssh_config.5#IdentityFile

[a2d8a4v]

I understood. So maybe It could be the one new function in one day? I think put setting in ~/.ssh/config is also a method to achieve this goal, but wp-cli could have this function itself it could be more great and convenient. Maybe add one more argument --ssh-key-path= or something else like it. I guess.

[schlessera]

If we would add another argument, it would be more along the lines of --ssh-args=<additional-arguments> and accept any additional arguments to SSH.

[a2d8a4v]

Thank you very much! Hope the new function would come soon!