SSH Keys for password less ssh sessions

[m.roth2006 at rcn.com]

Ben,

>Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:18:56 -0700
>From: Ben Kevan <ben.kevan at gmail.com>  
>On Tuesday 22 July 2008 11:45:32 pm Andre Dill wrote:
>>
>> Try renaming .ssh/authorized_keys to .ssh/authorized_keys2 and make sure
>> that you chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys2
>
>I have actually copied my id_dsa.pub as authorized_keys2 with the same 
>behavior as appending to authorized_keys .. It's a strange one. 

I haven't been following this thread, but a thought hit me: first, what are the permissions on the .ssh directory, and on the files within it, and second, is selinux enabled?

     mark