I need SSH access to an Amazon EC2 instance running Ubuntu 10.4. All I have is the Amazon username and password. Any ideas?
Basically, you need a private-key file to login into your EC2 via SSH. Follow these steps to create one:
ssh -i /path/to/private-key root@<ec2-public-dns-address>
- the root username has been avoided in the latest releases, based on your distribution select ec2-user
or ubuntu
as your username.