Setting the default ssh key location

Question

ssh will look for its keys by default in the ~/.ssh folder. I want to force it to always look in another location.

The workaround I\'m using is to add the keys from

Answer 1

If you are only looking to point to a different location for you identity file, the you can modify your ~/.ssh/config file with the following entry:

IdentityFile ~/.foo/identity

man ssh_config to find other config options.