sco 5.0.7 ssh auto login

From: Cary Lewis (cary.lewis_at_gmail.com)
Date: 01/25/05 

Date: 25 Jan 2005 07:37:32 -0800

I can not get the auto-login authorized_keys ssh technique to work
correctly on sco 5.0.7 with the sco supplied ssh build (with update 3).

I can get the root to autologin to its own account, and I can get other
users on other machines to login in to the root account with the
authorized_keys technique with no problem.

With a regular user this does not work.

Copying id_rsa.pub to authorized_keys and then ssh localhost should
auto-login, but I get the prompt for password.

The ssh -v -v -v output indicates that we send the public key

.
.
.
debug1: Offering public key: /dvlp/cary/.ssh/id_rsa
debug3: send_pubkey_test
debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply
debug1: Authentications that can continue:
publickey,password,keyboard-interacti
.
.

but the server does not accept it.

When I try the root account, it works correctly:

debug1: Server accepts key: pkalg ssh-rsa blen 149

So why does the root account work, but regular users do not?
Any help would be appreciated.

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