How to trigger password input at login / startup

[trallnag]

I want to load a key into the ssh-agent at startup. Can I do that with ssh-ident?

Using something like ssh-keygen -y -f ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 does not work

[maddes-b]

Please read the OpenSSH manual and look for ssh-keygen, ssh-agent and ssh-add.
By the way ssh-ident is loading the keys on-demand just define them correctly (see README).
The fork at https://github.com/ssh-ident/ssh-ident1 also allows to use ssh-ident as an ssh-add replacement to explicitly load non-default keys for an identity (see its README).
Please close the topic with your result when you got a solution.

[maddes-b]

Please have a look at the fork at https://github.com/ssh-ident/ssh-ident1, just added a functionality (-I) to load all keys for an identity via ssh-add. That can be used inside your user's .profile.
Would be nice if you could test it in your environment.