SSH EC2 asking for password

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Matt picture Matt · Mar 17, 2012 · Viewed 83.6k times · Source

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 until it asked for the root password to my EC2 server...

Any suggestions?

Answer

Dhiraj picture Dhiraj · Apr 21, 2012

Update

Updating this answer because of the activity:

Depending on if the system is ubuntu or Rhel the user varies.

For ubuntu it is 

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

For RHEL it is

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

Connecting to an ec2 instance does not require a password, it would require only a pem file and this is how you connect to it

ssh -i my-pem-file.pem ec2-user@my-instance-address

and remember to chmod 400 your pem file before ssh'ing

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