Can't ssh to AWS EC2: Identity file not accessible
I'm unable to ssh to my EC2 server and am getting the error:
ssh -i /Users/Skeniver/Keepass/skeniver.pem [email protected]
Identity file /Users/Skeniver/Keepass/skeniver.pem not accessible: No such file or directory
The file is definitely in the directory and I've chmod'd the directory to 755 and the file to 600:
drwxr-xr-x 14 Skeniver staff 476 28 Nov 2012 Keepass
-rw------- 1 Skeniver staff 1696 5 Oct 2012 skeniverkey.pem
I'm pretty sure it's a permissions problem, but can't figure out why...
Here is the output of the ssh command using -v, in case it's of any use:
Warning: Identity file /Users/Skeniver/Keepass/skeniver.pem not accessible: No such file or directory.
OpenSSH_5.2p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
debug1: Connecting to xx.xxx.xx.xxx [xx.xxx.xx.xxx] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /Users/Skeniver/.ssh/identity type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/Skeniver/.ssh/id_rsa type 1
debug1: identity file /Users/Skeniver/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_5.9p1 Debian-5ubuntu1.1
debug1: match: OpenSSH_5.9p1 Debian-5ubuntu1.1 pat OpenSSH*
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.2
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: Host 'xx.xxx.xx.xxx' is known and matches the RSA host key.
debug1: Found key in /Users/Skeniver/.ssh/known_hosts:8
debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Offering public key: /Users/Skeniver/.ssh/id_rsa
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug1: Trying private key: /Users/Skeniver/.ssh/identity
debug1: Trying private key: /Users/Skeniver/.ssh/id_dsa
debug1: No more authentication methods to try.
Permission denied (publickey).
You need the identity file to login to the box. Use the command:
ssh -i (identity_file) username@hostname"
This worked for me. Write just the filename (without any slashes), unlike Amazon EC2 tutorial which asks you to enter:
ssh -i /path/key_pair.pem ec2-user@public_dns_name
It worked for me after putting the identity file in the .ssh (hidden) folder on home. To view hidden folders on home, use ctrl+h
I had similar issue and found that there was hidden char in command, pasting to plain text editor and copy back helped me.
I was having this same issue. Storing the identity file in my ~/.ssh directory and running cd ~/.ssh before ssh -i (identity_file) username@hostname worked. I only ran into the issue when trying to run the ssh command from outside the ~/.ssh directory. Hopefully that helps
For your case just
just execute the following command to change permission
sudo chmod 400 /Users/Skeniver/Keepass/skeniver.pem
and then execute the command that will connect you to EC2
ssh -i /Users/Skeniver/Keepass/skeniver.pem [email protected]