Putty is one of the best terminal emulators available today. It supports different types of network protocols such as SSH, FTP, SCP, Telnet, etc. In Windows, it is used as SSH client to connect to your Linux server, or for some other purpose. Amazon Web Services (AWS) uses SSH keys to securely connect and exchange information between servers and clients. Using SSH keys greatly increases the security of your sites and applications. This article shows you how to generate and use SSH keys to connect to your AWS account managed by Media Temple. Mac OS X has a built-in SSH client called Terminal which can be used to connect to remote servers. By default, Terminal is located in Applications > Utilities folder.
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I created a new keypair and downloaded it to my mac, then set up a new Amazon Linux AMI server with that keypair and my security group. Now I need to put the keypair .pem file that I downloaded in a .ssh file in my users folder? I am unable to create a folder called '.ssh' however because of the name.
Where do I put the keypair on my mac? and what chmods or other commands are then needed to connect to the server from my linux bash? I know 'ssh my public DNS' but what other permissions or anything else should I be aware of? Its a newbie question. Thanks.
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You'll want to put the keypair in {your home directory}/.ssh . If that folder doesn't exist, create it. Once you put the keypair in there you have to change the permissions on the file so only your user can read it.Launch the terminal and type
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That limits access to the file, and then to limit access to the folder type
You have to limit the access because the OpenSSH protocol won't let you use a key that other's can view.
Then to log into your instance, from the terminal you would enter
ssh -i <your home directory>/.ssh/<your keypair file> ec2-user@<ec2 hostname>
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Nextcloud client logs mac. you can also create a file ~/.ssh/configchmod it 644then inside you can add something like this
then you can just do
$ ssh mybox-root https://newfly552.weebly.com/blog/torrent-client-for-mac-yosemite.
and you'll login easier.
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You can use Java MindTerm to connect to your EC2 server in Macbook pro. It works for me. here are the more details and step by step instruction.
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http://www.openssh.com/ is the suggested one on http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-connect-to-instance-linux.html#using-ssh-client (option 3)
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Install perforce client. Someone was asking on Mac's an easy way to create the ~/.ssh folder would be by running command ssh-keygen, then use following setup ..
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B. Then create:
C. Fix the permissions:
D. Copy AWS Key to that file:
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#You would have saved this SSH key earlier when creating the EC2 instance
E. Then test the ssh to AWS Linux server - you will see this error:
Please login as the user 'ec2-user' rather than the user 'root'.
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F. Re-try that and it should work with allowed AWS user 'ec2-user':
Hope this helps, all the best.
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