AWS SSH connection error: Permission denied (publickey)

Rober picture Rober · Apr 30, 2014 · Viewed 51.9k times · Source

Im trying to connect to my EC2 instance with SSH and Iḿ getting crazy. I have read this post and tried all user combinations:

AWS ssh access 'Permission denied (publickey)' issue

Its still not working for me. Any idea what am I missing?

  roberto@ubuntu:~/keys$ ssh -v -i ec2-key-pair.pem [email protected]
OpenSSH_6.6, OpenSSL 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 19: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to ec2-54-72-242-0.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com [54.72.242.0] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file ec2-key-pair.pem type -1
debug1: identity file ec2-key-pair.pem-cert type -1
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_6.6p1 Ubuntu-2ubuntu1
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_6.2
debug1: match: OpenSSH_6.2 pat OpenSSH* compat 0x04000000
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug1: kex: server->client aes128-ctr [email protected] none
debug1: kex: client->server aes128-ctr [email protected] none
debug1: sending SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_INIT
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY
debug1: Server host key: ECDSA e4:06:ee:a5:a5:d2:97:5f:0f:b7:06:5e:f2:b3:da:26
debug1: Host 'ec2-54-72-242-0.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com' is known and matches the ECDSA host key.
debug1: Found key in /home/roberto/.ssh/known_hosts:3
debug1: ssh_ecdsa_verify: signature correct
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: Roaming not allowed by server
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Trying private key: ec2-key-pair.pem
debug1: key_parse_private2: missing begin marker
debug1: read PEM private key done: type RSA
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug1: No more authentication methods to try.
Permission denied (publickey).

UPDATE: 

According to @aldanux suggestions:

    roberto@ubuntu:~/keys$ ssh-keygen -R 54.72.242.0
# Host 54.72.242.0 found: line 4 type ECDSA
/home/roberto/.ssh/known_hosts updated.
Original contents retained as /home/roberto/.ssh/known_hosts.old
roberto@ubuntu:~/keys$ ssh -i ec2-key-pair.pem [email protected]
Warning: Permanently added the ECDSA host key for IP address '54.72.242.0' to the list of known hosts.
Permission denied (publickey).

Answer

Rico picture Rico · Apr 30, 2014

You are probably logging in as the wrong user. If it's a Ubuntu instance the command would be:

ssh -v -i ec2-key-pair.pem [email protected]