You are correct,  it needs to be a KDE application to use kwallet.
Luckily,  SSH has its own methods to accomplish the same thing. You can
authenticate with a certificate instead of a password.

https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/howto/ssh/public_key/#openssh

Anand.
On Apr 17, 2014 4:21 PM, "Lewko, Robert" <lew...@uleth.ca> wrote:

> Is it possible that to use kwallet to store and manage the
> key/passphrase for a ssh?
>
> In other words - what I want is to configure kwallet so that I enter my
> kwallet password when I login and then when I use ssh kwallet takes care
> of entering my passphrase into ksshaskpass without me having to enter it
> again?
>
> The best thing that I have been able to do is put a script into
> .kde/Autostart that calls keychain.
>
> It seems to me that getting kwallet to manage the passphrase would only be
> possible if there was a KDE ssh application?  Has anyone looked into this?
>
>
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