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

The thing that did the trick for me finally was to make sure that the owner/group were not root, but user:

chown -R ~/.ssh/ user
chgrp -R ~/.ssh/ user