SSH EC2 asking for password

Question

I\'ve just setup my EC2 server following this video here exactly - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBajLxeKqoY

I even chose the same server type, everything went well

Answer 1

I had the same problem and after a lot of struggle, I read this page again:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AccessingInstancesLinux.html

Notice in the 4th topic it talks about the user name. It is usually ec2-user but if you are using RHEL5 distro it can be root and if you are using the Ubuntu the user name will be ubuntu - which was my case.

So alternatively try those:

ssh -i my-pem-file.pem ubuntu@my-ec2-instance-address for Ubuntu

or

ssh -i my-pem-file.pem root@my-ec2-instance-address for RHEL5

Hope it helps!

Answer 2

You should use the *.pem instead of a root password. Once you have logged in use passwd to set a password.

Answer 3

If you need to do things as root once you are in as ec2-user, use sudo su - that gets you to root and doesn't need a password. Somethings you do need that for, like looking at the tomcat log files

Answer 4

In my case, the problem was the file's break type. Try this:

1.- Open the .pem file with TextWrangler

2.- At Bottom of app, verify if the Break Type is "Windows(CRLF)".

Regards