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

Answer 2

as the accepted answer do, if you encount a problem of

    Agent admitted failure to sign using the key.

you need to

    ssh-add

Answer 3

Have discovered the problem.

Running the server with debuging:

$sshd -Dd

I found it was not able to read the auth_key

$chmod 750 $HOME

Fixed it.

Answer 4

I fixed my problem setting the AllowUsers on sshd_config file.

Running the server with debuging:

$sshd -Dd

I found it was not allowed the my user

$sudo vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Add a row with after #Authentication:

AllowUsers myUser

Answer 5

Another possible answer: the authorized_keys file may exist and be readable. But if it is group- or world-writable, it will still prompt for the password. The answer to THAT problem is

chmod og-wx ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

Answer 6

On Centos 7

SOLUTION

1 create rsa key
2 vim /etc/ssh/ssh_config
3
#   IdentityFile ~/.ssh/identity
uncoment this line > IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
#   IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_dsa
#   IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_ecdsa

Note *I did this after copying the key and some of the other answers before this one. But I am pretty sure this is all you have to do but if not I would append the rsa key to authorized_keys and also run the

ssh-copy-id to username@localhost