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.

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Answer 1

In my case I needed to put my authorized_keys file in .openssh.

This location is specified in /etc/ssh/sshd_config under the option AuthorizedKeysFile %h/.ssh/authorized_keys.