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

In Mac terminal, doing "chmod 400 xyz.pem" did not help me, it kept saying permission denied. For ubuntu users I would suggest

1. ssh-add xyz.pem
2. ssh -i xyz.pem ubuntu@ec2-54-69-172-118.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com (notice the user is ubuntu)