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

Question

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

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

Not mentioned (at least in explicitly) is the fact that RSE (and for what I've seen, Eclipse in general) only seems to work with 1024 bit keys https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=404714

I also had issues, because my privatekey was 2048, but I added a new key to authorized hosts and then I could connect.

Answer 3

I added my local computer's ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub to the remote /home/ec2-user/.ssh/authorized_keys . Then just set the user to connect in RSE to ec2-user when connecting.

Someone asked for root login. It works too: update /root/.ssh/authorized_keys , and edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config to allow root login:

#PermitRootLogin forced-commands-only
PubkeyAuthentication yes

Then reload the sshd daemon: service sshd restart