Problem platform: SunOS xxxxxx 5.11 oi_151a i86pc i386 i86pc

I've configured publickey auth for my personal account and can move between multiple servers with no password prompt. I've created an utility account that will be moving files and launching rsync tranfers and attempted pulbickey auth but that account always reverts to password authentication.

I'm assuming that there is a difference in how the accounts were created, but the only onethat I can find is that mine has role=root. When I assigned that role to the utility account it made no difference so I removed the role.

Steps used in setting up publickey auth:
# ssh-keygen -t rsa -N ""
# cp id_rsa.pub authorized_keys
# chmod 600 authorized_keys
# scp .ssh/* OtherServer:~/.ssh

I understand that the account on each server should have its own key with all the key concatenated in authoriized_keys, but there will be dozens of servers involved and the method described is working on my user account and has been successfully applied in other data centers.

tia

Fixed. The home directory CAN NOT have group write enabled. My home directory with publickey accepted was mode 755. The home of the utility account was mode 775.

Debugging:
- Stop sshd 'svcadm disable ssh'
- Launch from the command line in debug mode without output to console.

# /usr/lib/ssh/sshd -dd

If I then attempt a logon to this server, the console reports 'Authentication refused: Bad ownership or modes for directory /export/home/username.