A little trick I learned today.

So Yubikey can’t be cooler when it comes to securing your private key and you know, all sorts of identity/authentication related stuff. At work, it’s enfored via ~/.ssh/config using PKCS11Provider /Library/OpenSC/lib/opensc-pkcs11.so.

But there are cases that Yubikey is not used. E.g., to git clone from a repo where SSH is used with a regular key pair. A simple negation entry can solve this need:

# Use my regular identity for Azure DevOps
Host !ssh.dev.azure.com *
    PKCS11Provider /Library/OpenSC/lib/opensc-pkcs11.so