Can't ssh with passphrase

Hi,

I just recently installed the SSH package in unmenu and I am having difficulty configuring it to use passphrase.

I generated a key and created a "authorized_keys" file. Everything is sitting in "~/.ssh/"

I went into /etc/ssh and configured both files "ssh_config" and "sshd_config" files to;

ssh_config:

   PasswordAuthentication no
   PubkeyAuthentication yes

sshd_config:

   PasswordAuthentication no
   PubkeyAuthentication yes
   AuthorizedKeysFile      ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

I then restarted ssh with

/etc/rc.d/rc.sshd stop

/etc/rc.d/rc.sshd start

When I try to login with putty remotely, it asks for a username and then i get the error "Disconnected: No supported authentication methods available"

If I do it directly from the console and type: "ssh -i .ssh/id_rsa servername" it works just fine.

I looked to see if i need to do anything to putty but i couldn't find anything... Is there something I am doing wrong and someone can assist me?

Regards,