Amazon Notes - apycazo/playground GitHub Wiki

Links

Configure Putty session and mRemoteNG

http://technotes.khitrenovich.com/opening-ssh-aws-hosted-linux-servers-mremoteng/

Getting started

https://aws.amazon.com/es/getting-started/tutorials/launch-a-virtual-machine/

Connection and login

Login

User names seems to include:

  1. root
  2. ec2-user
  3. ubuntu

Reenable password access

  1. Login as root using key pairs
  2. Create user with sudo adduser USERNAME and set password sudo passwd USERNAME
  3. Edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config setting: PasswordAuthentication yes
  4. Restart daemon: sudo service sshd restart