I am having difficulty logging onto my Amazon ec2 instance. I set it up,
downloaded the key. At first it complained because my permissions were setup
correctly. Then I executed: chmod 400 myKey.pem. When I try to log in,
I still get: Permission denied (publickey)
Next I deleted all of my keys and tried fresh: rm -rf ~/.ssh
I am confused by the other responses to this question. It seems like 1000 things could go wrong, and I'm not sure where to begin. I ran it with the -v option and it generated the following output (see below). Which I don't know exactly what to make of it.
As a beginner working through this, what should I try next?
-------------command output---------------
$ ssh -v -i myKey.pem [email protected]
OpenSSH_5.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011
debug1: Connecting to ec2-107-20-xxx-yyy.compute-1.amazonaws.com
[107.20.xxx.yyy] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file myKey.pem type -1
debug1: identity file myKey.pem-cert type -1
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_5.3p1
Debian-3ubuntu5
debug1: match: OpenSSH_5.3p1 Debian-3ubuntu5 pat OpenSSH*
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.9
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug1: kex: server->client aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none
debug1: kex: client->server aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(1024<1024<8192) sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY
debug1: Server host key: RSA d2:5b:dc:9e:b2:b1:f0:b1:13:2c:25:7f:ed:e1:9e:49
debug1: Host 'ec2-107-20-xxx-yyy.compute-1.amazonaws.com' is known and matches the RSA host key.
debug1: Found key in /home/me/.ssh/known_hosts:1
debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: Roaming not allowed by server
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Trying private key: myKey.pem
debug1: read PEM private key done: type RSA
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug1: No more authentication methods to try.
Permission denied (publickey).