**What steps will reproduce the problem?** On my work computer I created a new repository and then added a directory on my home server to backup some of my files. The assistant created a new key pair which then made password login quite hard. On the commandline I could still login via ssh -o PreferredAuthentications=keyboard-interactive ... but all gui tools (e.g. gigolo) stop after connecting to the restricted shell. I don't want to allow full passwordless access to my server from this computer. **What is the expected output? What do you see instead?** It should be possible to use this private key with git-annex exclusively. Maybe a line like this in the [remote] block in .git/config would solve the problem: IdentityFile = /home/user/.ssh/annex/id_rsa_annex I think it should be the default behaviour that git-annex uses its own key pair with restricted access. For portability the keys could be stored somewhere in the repository itself. **What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?** git-annex version: 4.20130324, Ubuntu 11.04 **Please provide any additional information below.**