I wanted my ssh-keys automatically loaded when loging on to my box.
In OpenSUSE you can easily fix this.
Make sure you got these packages installed:
joar@linux-xsuv:~> rpm -qa | grep ssh
pam_ssh-1.96-26.112
openssh-5.1p1-40.15
openssh-askpass-5.1p1-40.15
Now edit /etc/pam.d/xdm and add the lines
>auth sufficient pam_ssh.so
session required pam_ssh.so
don’t delete anything there, just add those lines mentioned above.
This ensures ssh-agent is started while logging on and pam tries to unlock any of your ssh keys by using your login password as a passphrase.
Obviously this requires your ssh-key passphrase to equal your login password 🙂
I’ve tested this on OpenSUSE 11.1.
Source for this info at opensuse.org