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After verifying file permissions, still unable to login without entering passsord. Found issue where SELINUX was keeping the SSH service from reading the authorized_keys file. Issue encountered on a Red Hat 6 server.

Fix:
$ restorecon -R -v /home/user/.ssh
restorecon reset /home/user/.ssh context unconfined_u:object_r:home_root_t:s0->unconfined_u:object_r:ssh_home_t:s0
restorecon reset /home/user/.ssh/known_hosts context unconfined_u:object_r:home_root_t:s0->unconfined_u:object_r:ssh_home_t:s0
restorecon reset /home/user/.ssh/id_dsa context unconfined_u:object_r:home_root_t:s0->unconfined_u:object_r:ssh_home_t:s0
restorecon reset /home/user/.ssh/id_dsa.pub context unconfined_u:object_r:home_root_t:s0->unconfined_u:object_r:ssh_home_t:s0
restorecon reset /home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys context unconfined_u:object_r:home_root_t:s0->unconfined_u:object_r:ssh_home_t:s0

Passwordless login now works:
$ ssh gilis28.fls
Last login: Wed Oct 3 14:07:00 2012 from 10.255.2.204
[user@GILIS28 ~]$