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

You need to verify the properties of the files.

To assign the required property, use:

$ chmod 600 ~/.ssh/sshKey
$ chmod 644 ~/.ssh/sshKey.pub