ssh: percent_expand: NULL replacement

[jptix]

The solution to this problem is to use the -i flag when connecting to the
server:

ssh user at host -i ~/.ssh/id_dsa

You can also make this permanent for all servers by adding this line to your
~/.ssh/config:

IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_dsa

The above solution is courtesy of Allan Odgaard, author of the excellent 
http://macromates.com/ TextMate  editor.
He also has a theory about the cause of the problem:



> ssh has some default search path for private keys, this string includes
> escape codes for user name, user folder and such.
> so by default it will expand that string to find your key, and on leopard,
> one of these variables expands to NULL and hence you get that error.
> so giving -i «private key» bypasses this search path string.
> 
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