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

you can also create a file ~/.ssh/config chmod it 644 then inside you can add something like this

host mybox-root
  Hostname [the IP or dns name]
  User root
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/[your keypair here]

then you can just do

$ ssh mybox-root

and you'll login easier.