ssh to EC2 instance with the new root user created

Question

After creating EC2 instance ssh to server is granted. But I created a root user(newUser) in ubuntu server.Now I want to directly ssh to the server with the new root user created. Using the same ssh command with the new user is denied.

ssh -i <.pem> newUser@ec2----.amazon.com is denied.

Answer 1

You need to setup password-less ssh for the new user newUser .

The following SO overflow question would help - https://askubuntu.com/questions/46930/how-can-i-set-up-password-less-ssh-login

Assuming your EC2 instance is an Ubuntu instance, the private key that you are trying to use to login would only work for logging in as the user ubuntu .

This thread on AWS forums would also be helpful - https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=86876