Adding a public key to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys does not log me in automatically

Question

I added the public SSH key to the authorized_keys file. ssh localhost should log me in without asking for the password.

I did that and tried t

Answer 1

In the following, user is your username.

mkdir -p /home/user/.ssh
ssh-keygen -t rsa
touch /home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys
touch /home/user/.ssh/known_hosts
chown -R user:user /home/user/.ssh
chmod 700 /home/user/.ssh
chmod 600 /home/user/.ssh/id*
chmod 644 /home/user/.ssh/id*.pub
chmod 644 /home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys
chmod 644 /home/user/.ssh/known_hosts