While playing around with x2go tonight I realized I’d missed a critical step so I thought I’d share it here in case you run into the same problem. When I added my default (id_rsa) public key to the session configuration and enabled auto-login I was prompted several times to enter the passphrase. Unfortunately, the default key doesn’t have one. Rather than creating a new one that I’d have to update wherever it’d be used I opted to create a new key that included a passphrase. No problem, right? Right.