How do I add a SSH key to AWS?

Posted on by Muna Meyer

How do I add a SSH key to AWS?

Use the steps below.

  1. In your AWS Management Console, choose an AWS Region in which you plan to reserve contacts.
  2. Choose Services > EC2 > Network & Security > Key Pairs, and then choose Create Key Pair.
  3. Enter a friendly name like groundstation-ec2-access-key- (for example, groundstation-ec2-access-key-us-east-2).

How do I add a user to my EC2 instance?

  1. In the navigation pane, choose Users, Add user.
  2. For User name, enter a user name.
  3. For Access type, select both Programmatic access and AWS Management Console access.
  4. For Console password, choose one of the following:
  5. Choose Next: Permissions.
  6. On the Set permissions page, choose Add user to group.
  7. Choose Create user.

How do I add a public key to my EC2 instance?

Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/ .

  1. In the navigation pane, choose Key Pairs.
  2. Select a public key, and then choose Actions, Manage tags.
  3. The Manage tags page displays any tags that are assigned to the public key.
  4. Choose Save.

How can I add an additional SSH user account with my cloud init and user data for my EC2 instance?

Resolution

  1. Connect to your EC2 instance using SSH.
  2. Run the following command to confirm that cloud-init is installed:
  3. Open the Amazon EC2 console and then select the instance.
  4. Choose Actions, select Instance State, and then choose Stop.
  5. Retrieve the public key from the key pair.

How do I SSH into an EC2 instance without PEM?

To be able to do so, you will need to create a user.

  1. Create a user.
  2. Create a home directory for the user.
  3. Add user to group ROOT.
  4. Add user in sudoers file.
  5. In ssh_d config file set Password Authentication to YES.
  6. Restart the ssh service.

How do I create a ssh user?

Add an SSH-Enabled User

  1. Generate an SSH key pair for the new user.
  2. Copy the public key value to a text file.
  3. Log in to your instance.
  4. Become the root user.
  5. Create the new user:
  6. Create a .
  7. Copy the SSH public key that you noted earlier to the /home/new_user/.

How do I ssh into an EC2 instance?

Connect to your EC2 Instance

  1. Open your terminal and change directory with command cd, where you downloaded your pem file.
  2. Type the SSH command with this structure: ssh -i file.pem [email protected]
  3. After pressing enter, a question will prompt to add the host to your known_hosts file.
  4. And that’s it!

How do I add a public key to authorizedkeys?

How to set up ssh so you aren’t asked for a password

  1. Run ssh-keygen(1) on your machine, and just hit enter when asked for a password. This will generate both a private and a public key.
  2. Next, add the contents of the public key file into ~/. ssh/authorized_keys on the remote site (the file should be mode 600).

How do I set up SSH key pairs?

Generate an SSH Key Pair

  1. Run the ssh-keygen command. You can use the -t option to specify the type of key to create.
  2. The command prompts you to enter the path to the file in which you want to save the key.
  3. The command prompts you to enter a passphrase.
  4. When prompted, enter the passphrase again to confirm it.