SSH Public Key Authentication Isn't Working

[Dennis Gilmore]

Once upon a time at band camp Thu, 13 Nov 2003 1:50 am, FearOfCarpet wrote:
> I did a fresh install of Yarrow, but copied a lot of config files (like
> samba and my firewall scripts) including most of my /home partition from
> a RH9 install. I made new public/private key pairs,  created my new
> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file, and eventually copied my /etc/ssh/sshd_conf
> file from RH9...  Everyone is set up to use ssh-agent and public key
> authentication, but the Fedora computer refuses to do so. No matter what
> I do it always prompts me for a password. Is there something about
> Fedora that would prevent this, or should this question be directed at
> an Open-SSH forum?

what are the users home dir permissions?  they have to be 700 for it to work.  
or 701 if you gives users webspace from there home dir  as well the .ssh dir 
has to be 700 also as do the files inside .ssh

Dennis