Dear frens,
i am using centos 6.2 and i have setup Public key auth for remote SSH but the problem is that every time i logout ssh-agent forgets my pass phrase and i have to reenter the exec /usr/bin/ssh-agent $SHELL , ssh-add command again.
Is there any way i can permanently store pass pharase for ssh-agent so that i don't have to reenter the pass phrase when i log in again?
Thank you in advance

If you are:
1) using gnome, and
2) the ssh passphrase is the same as your system password, and
3) your private key is in ~/.ssh/id_rsa (or ~/.ssh/id_dsa)

then it's my experience that the key gets loaded automagically

If any of the above is different, it might need some tweaking. If the passphrase differs from your system password, though, it will never work, because how secure is it to store the passphrase on the same system as the key itself, so you'll have to enter it at each logon.

Chances are that the ssh-agent (your first command) gets loaded anyway btw

Hi rhoekstra,
The system passowrd and passphrase are same and private key in ~/.ssh/id_rsa (or ~/.ssh/id_dsa) ..but stil it doesnt works.can you please suggest any idea/tweaks?
Thank you again