connecting to amazon aws linux server by ssh on mac

Question

I created a new keypair and downloaded it to my mac, then set up a new Amazon Linux AMI server with that keypair and my security group. Now I need to put the keypair .pem file t

Answer 1

Someone was asking on Mac's an easy way to create the ~/.ssh folder would be by running command ssh-keygen, then use following setup ...

A.

macbook-air$ ssh-keygen
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/Users/sam/.ssh/id_rsa): 
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): 
Enter same passphrase again: 
Your identification has been saved in /Users/sam/.ssh/id_rsa.
Your public key has been saved in /Users/sam/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.

B. Then create:

touch ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

C. Fix the permissions:

chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

D. Copy AWS Key to that file:

cp AWS_key.text ~sam/.ssh/authorized_keys

#You would have saved this SSH key earlier when creating the EC2 instance

E. Then test the ssh to AWS Linux server - you will see this error:

ssh -i ./authorized_keys root@ec2-54-76-176-29.ap-southeast-2.compute.amazonaws.com

Please login as the user "ec2-user" rather than the user "root".

F. Re-try that and it should work with allowed AWS user "ec2-user":

ssh -i ./authorized_keys ec2-user@ec2-54-76-176-29.ap-southeast-2.compute.amazonaws.com
       __|  __|_  )
       _|  (     /   Amazon Linux AMI
      ___|\___|___|

https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/2014.09-release-notes/
9 package(s) needed for security, out of 12 available
Run "sudo yum update" to apply all updates.

Hope this helps, all the best.