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

SSH keys and file permission best practices:

• .ssh directory - 0700 (only by owner)
• private key/.pem file - 0400 (read only by owner)

• public key/.pub file - 0600 (read & write only by owner)

  chmod XXXX file/directory