It does indeed sound like what you have isn't so much an SSH issue as it is a PAM configuration one. It sounds like you may want to just disable the use of PAM in your SSH configuration altogether.
Without knowing anything specific about your configuration, I don't know if that's a valid option for you, but it should give you the behavior you want. -----Original Message----- From: Keld Jørn Simonsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 9:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: using ssh for login authifcation I use ssh all the time and I am irritated that I need to first login via my passwd and then give my passphrase. I thought why not just give the passphrase, as I do when I do a remote login via ssh. I got the message from the list moderator that this may be irrelevant here - but IMHO it is related to ssh. Anyway he pointed me to PAM, and indeed I found a module pam_ssh.so that should fullfill my wishes. So my question is: is pam_ssh the way forward? [snip]
