I have a shared /home setup using Perceus Cluster Software (http://perceus.org) for our Cluster. Nodes are using CentOS 6.1 x86_64.
/home is shared from the head to the nodes b
It is not good to use a passwordless authorization.
Is selinux turned on those servers? If yes, then you have either to turn off selinux, or restore default selinux policies by "restorecon -R -v /home/user/.
This is a known issue