Permission Denied

[Higdon, David M - CNF]

Solaris 8
Openssh 2.1.1p4 
Openssl-0.9.5a
Zlib 1.1.3

Anyone know why one would get the permission denied error?
It seems to be failing on the "Doing passwd authentication" phase 
after the "Received encrypted confirmation" phase. I have included
the output of ssh -v.



Thanks,

David


# ssh -v hostname
SSH Version OpenSSH_2.1.1, protocol versions 1.5/2.0.
Compiled with SSL (0x0090581f).
debug: Reading configuration data /usr/local/etc/ssh_config
debug: Applying options for *
debug: Command 'arp -a -n' timed out
debug: Command 'ipcs -a' timed out
debug: Seeded RNG with 34 bytes from programs
debug: Seeded RNG with 3 bytes from system calls
debug: ssh_connect: getuid 0 geteuid 0 anon 0
debug: Connecting to hostname.cnf.com [10.0.114.69] port 22.
debug: Allocated local port 1023.
debug: Connection established.
debug: Remote protocol version 1.99, remote software version OpenSSH_2.1.1
debug: Local version string SSH-1.5-OpenSSH_2.1.1
debug: Waiting for server public key.
debug: Received server public key (768 bits) and host key (1024 bits).
debug: Host 'hostname.cnf.com' is known and matches the RSA host key.
debug: Seeded RNG with 31 bytes from programs
debug: Seeded RNG with 3 bytes from system calls
debug: Encryption type: 3des
debug: Sent encrypted session key.
debug: Installing crc compensation attack detector.
debug: Received encrypted confirmation.
Permission denied.
debug: Calling cleanup 0x3d6c8(0x0)
debug: Calling cleanup 0x3ffb8(0x0)
debug: writing PRNG seed to file //.ssh/prng_seed