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 addition to the other answers, here is what I did in order for this to work:

• Copy the key to .ssh folder if you still hadn't:

cp key.pem ~/.ssh/key.pem

• Give the proper permissions to the key

chmod 400 ~/.ssh/key.pem

• Start ssh-agent (Thanks to https://stackoverflow.com/a/17848593 )

eval `ssh-agent -s` ssh-add

• Then, add the key

ssh-add ~/.ssh/key.pem

Now you should be able to ssh EC2 (: