On 2014-04-17, alexander taylor <ajxtay...@gmail.com> wrote: > gnome-keyring does the trick on linux, but for the feature to be > popular and easy to use, pehaps it's better if it the solution is > cross platform / built into ssh-keygen.
The way you are talking about doing this is dependent on PAM so it's only available on systems using that.. gnome-keyring is possibly *more* portable; for one thing, it works on OpenBSD.