[SunHELP] problems with putty/dsa authorization on solaris9

[Solaris Neophyte]

this worked w/o a hitch on freebsd and netbsd, but now i'm getting issues with
solaris 9.

i'm trying to use keypair authorization instead of passwords when i ssh into
the sparc20.

i used puttygen to create the dsa keypairs. i placed the public key,
authorized_keys2 in the user home director under ~/.ssh and i placed the
private key, id_dsa.ppk on the system that is going to access the sparc20. i
changed the permissions for the ~./ssh to 700 and the permissions on the public
key to 600.

whenever i try to login using the key, i get messages stating that the server
rejected the key.

i've gone in to the password and shadow files using vipw (it's a bit different
than i am used to) to change the password field of the user to a single '*'.

anyone have any clues how i can resolve this issue?

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