SSH and Remote Key authentication

[Norman Vine]

Hi all

I am trying to use SSH remote key authentication  
It appears as if the remote $HOST does not like 
the permissions on my home dir

Any guidance appreciated

TIA

Norman

$ cd ~

$ ls -ld
drwxr-xr-x+  21 $USER      None        32768 Feb 13 06:29 .

$ ls -ld .ssh
drwx------+   3 $USER      None         4096 Feb 12 13:49 .ssh

$ ssh -v $USER@$HOST
OpenSSH_3.7.1p2, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0.9.7c 30 Sep 2003
debug1: Reading configuration data /home/$USER/.ssh/config
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
debug1: Connecting to $HOST [128.128.109.18] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /home/$USER/.ssh/identity type 0
debug1: identity file /home/$USER/.ssh/id_rsa type 1
debug1: identity file /home/$USER/.ssh/id_dsa type 2
debug1: Remote protocol version 1.99, remote software version OpenSSH_3.1p1
debug1: match: OpenSSH_3.1p1 pat OpenSSH_2.*,OpenSSH_3.0*,OpenSSH_3.1*
debug1: Local version string SSH-1.5-OpenSSH_3.7.1p2
debug1: Waiting for server public key.
debug1: Received server public key (768 bits) and host key (1024 bits).
debug1: Host '$HOST' is known and matches the RSA1 host key.
debug1: Found key in /home/$USER/.ssh/known_hosts:17
debug1: Encryption type: 3des
debug1: Sent encrypted session key.
debug1: Installing crc compensation attack detector.
debug1: Received encrypted confirmation.
debug1: Trying RSA authentication with key '/home/$USER/.ssh/identity'
debug1: Remote: Authentication refused: bad ownership or modes for directory /home/$USER
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

debug1: Server refused our key.
debug1: Doing challenge response authentication.
debug1: No challenge.
debug1: Doing password authentication.

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