Problem with Configuring Host Based Authentication

[Ssh Mailing List Administrator]

Hi,
   I have installed SSH 2.3 on both crunch as well as fungi. I have a few scripts that 
require fungi to access crunch. For this, I am trying to configure the host based 
authentication on crunch. I followed the steps given on the FAQ page. When I gave the 
following command on fungi, i received the password prompt. 

>ssh crunchuser@crunch uptime

By running sshd2 in verbose mode i obtained the listing, part of which is reproduced 
below.

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partial Listing on running "ssh crunchuser@crunch uptime"
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debug: Ssh2Transport/trcommon.c:593/ssh_tr_input_version: Remote version: 
SSH-1.99-2.3.0 SSH Secure Shell
debug: Ssh2Transport/trcommon.c:1068/ssh_tr_negotiate: c_to_s: cipher 3des-cbc, mac 
hmac-sha1, compression none
debug: Ssh2Transport/trcommon.c:1071/ssh_tr_negotiate: s_to_c: cipher 3des-cbc, mac 
hmac-sha1, compression none
debug: Ssh2Client/sshclient.c:399/keycheck_key_match: Host key found from database.
debug: Ssh2Common/sshcommon.c:297/ssh_common_special: Received SSH_CROSS_STARTUP 
packet from connection protocol.
debug: Ssh2Common/sshcommon.c:347/ssh_common_special: Received SSH_CROSS_ALGORITHMS 
packet from connection protocol.
debug: Unable to open /root/.ssh2/identification
debug: Ssh2AuthClient/sshauthc.c:309/ssh_authc_completion_proc: Method 'publickey' 
disabled.
debug: Ssh2AuthPasswdClient/authc-passwd.c:82/ssh_client_auth_passwd: Starting 
password query...
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I am new to SSH and any suggestions would be appreciated.




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