Monday, July 07, 2008

ElasticFox: How to SSH to Amazon EC2 Image Without Entering a Password

1. Download and install the ElasticFox plugin.
2. Enter your credentials.
3. Enter your account information.
4. Select the KeyPairs tab.
5. Click Create a New Pair.
6. Save to a file; for example ~/.ec2/affy.pem.
7. Select the AMIs and Instances tab.
8. Click Launch Instance(s).
9. In the dialog box, select the keypair that you created in step 5.
10. When the AMI is running, you should be able to connect to it without a password prompt.

6 comments:

Alvina said...

Thank you soooooo much. This made elasticfox a breeze to get through. I had a little difficulty trying to figure out what to put as the name in my crudentils. what worked was using the actual name that my amazon account is under where it sys welcome. And on the part for run instance, there were no ami's in the box if you click in the entry box to the top right al of a sudden it floods with AMIs. thanks once again.

Alvina said...

Hi, I'm back. I can't seem to figure out where to go from here. I'm using ubuntu and after I followed your awesome steps I clicked on open ssh connection and got this error: No such file or directory. Hmm can't find a tutorial to carry me through the next steps any advice or did I do something wrong?
TIA,
Alvina

David Medinets said...

Do you have SSH installed?

Alvina said...

there's ssh that came with ubuntu I haven't done anything to it. Do I need to initiate it somehow before it will work?

David Medinets said...

I did not need to initialize SSH. It seems like you'll need to find someone who can physically look at your machine to determine the issue.

Alvina said...

ok thank you