SSH to AWS Instance without key pairs

Question

1: Is there a way to log in to an AWS instance without using key pairs? I want to set up a couple of sites/users on a single instance. However, I don\'t want to give out key

Answer 1

su - root

Goto /etc/ssh/sshd_config

vi sshd_config

Authentication:

PermitRootLogin yes

To enable empty passwords, change to yes (NOT RECOMMENDED)

PermitEmptyPasswords no

Change to no to disable tunnelled clear text passwords

PasswordAuthentication yes

:x!

Then restart ssh service

root@cloudera2:/etc/ssh# service ssh restart
ssh stop/waiting
ssh start/running, process 10978

Now goto sudoers files (/etc/sudoers).

User privilege specification

root  ALL=(ALL)NOPASSWD:ALL
yourinstanceuser  ALL=(ALL)NOPASSWD:ALL    / This is the user by which you are launching instance.