How to ssh to localhost without password?

Question

EDIT: Putting exactly what was done

I need to SSH localhost without password, the usual way of doing it (with public keys) do not work.

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Answer 1

Do the following steps

ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "your_email@example.com"
# Creates a new ssh key, using the provided email as a label
# Generating public/private rsa key pair.

Use the default file and empty passphrase (Simply press enter in the next 2 steps)

# start the ssh-agent in the background
eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
# Agent pid 59566
ssh-add 

Copy the contents of ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

Ensure following are the permissions

 ls -l .ssh/
 total 20
-rw-r--r--. 1 swati swati  399 May  5 14:53 authorized_keys
-rw-r--r--. 1 swati swati  761 Jan 12 15:59 config
-rw-------. 1 swati swati 1671 Jan 12 15:44 id_rsa
-rw-r--r--. 1 swati swati  399 Jan 12 15:44 id_rsa.pub
-rw-r--r--. 1 swati swati  410 Jan 12 15:46 known_hosts 

Also, ensure the permissions for .ssh directory are. This is also important

drwx------.   2 swati swati    4096 May  5 14:56 .ssh