Connect Eclipse RSE with remote Linux server using public key attained from Amazon ec2

einstein picture einstein · Jan 13, 2011 · Viewed 21.1k times · Source

I want a easy way to save, copy and edit files on a remote server. I'm using Eclipse as an IDE, what could be better for these tasks than RSE(Remote System Exlporer) plugin for Eclipse. The thing is that I dont know how to make a connection using a public key. I have file that I downloaded from my Amazon account, *.pem. But I don't see any forms or inputs for this, when I try to connect to my remote Linux server. It is just User-id and password. I also tried to open the public key using the system's text editor and copy everything to my password field, but it didn't worked. Pls help me

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turbohoje picture turbohoje · Jan 15, 2011

this was baking my noodle for a while too. you put the keys in a folder not in the RSE config but in the whole of eclipse

check this: http://siteadmin.gforge.inria.fr/eclipse-ssh.html