Can't ssh to AWS EC2: Identity file not accessible

Question

I\'m unable to ssh to my EC2 server and am getting the error:

ssh -i /Users/Skeniver/Keepass/skeniver.pem ubuntu@xx.xxx.xx.xxx

Identity file /Users/Skeniver/Kee         


        

Answer 1

I was having this same issue. Storing the identity file in my ~/.ssh directory and running cd ~/.ssh before ssh -i (identity_file) username@hostname worked. I only ran into the issue when trying to run the ssh command from outside the ~/.ssh directory. Hopefully that helps