ssh exe.dev sometimes asks me to register

When you ssh to a server, you authenticate using a public key. If you have multiple public keys, they are offered to the server one at a time. Out of privacy concerns, the server must accept or reject each key in turn; it cannot wait to see the full set.

When you ssh exe.dev, our server decides based on the first key it receives whether it knows who you are. If we don't recognize the key, we ask you to register.

This is a pretty fundamental limitation of ssh.

If this is happening to you, options include:

• specify a particular key to use with exe.dev
• add the other public keys to exe.dev using one of:
  • run ssh-key add in the repl (docs)
  • visit your profile page
  • "re-register" with the new keys using your same email address