How to add RSA key to authorized_keys file?

Make sure when executing Michael Krelin’s solution you do the following

cat <your_public_key_file> >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

Note that without the double >> the existing contents of authorized_keys will be over-written (nuked!) and that may not be desirable.

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