[Beowulf] RE: ssh without password for non root user in RedHat Enterprise Linux 3

[Mark Hahn]

> I went through this same exercise a while back and it finally ended up    
> being a permission problem on my home directory (not just the .ssh 

my first step in solving ssh issues is to look at syslog,
which contained a message explaining this.  but also, did you 
try unsetting the StrictModes option in sshd_config?