Trying to SSH into an Amazon Ec2 instance - permission error

Question

This is probably a stupidly simple question to some :)

I\'ve created a new linux instance on Amazon EC2, and as part of that downloaded the .pem file to allow me to

Answer 1

You are likely using the wrong username to login:

• most Ubuntu images have a user ubuntu
• Amazon's AMI is ec2-user
• most Debian images have either root or admin

To login, you need to adjust your ssh command:

ssh -l USERNAME_HERE -i .ssh/yourkey.pem public-ec2-host

HTH