AWS Connection to Linux EC2 instance
I may have missed this in my searches in the Online Documentation and again here on the forum, but I am having significant difficulty making connections to my AWS linux instances using the built in SSH Shell. In Putty (which I don't have installed anymore, though I may need it for this purpose), I had to convert the .PEM file to a .PPK file for Putty to recognize it, then put that in the session information. For the SSH Shell, however, I don't seem to see that option in the Private Key tab. Ideally I can just plug in the .PEM file we have, but if I need to convert it, that might be okay too. Am I missing something here?
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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Hello,
I'm not sure we have anything that can work with .PEM files. Fortunately we do support .PPK files through our SSH Shell entry type, since the terminal is based on PuTTY. Could you try out that entry type?
Regards,
Hubert Mireault
Thank you. That now connects to AWS but then refuses the key. Guess I have to troubleshoot why that is now, but at least now I know how to setup RDM for this.
Perhaps doing some sort of on the fly PuTTYGen-like conversion would be a nice feature request? Just a thought on how it may make this easier for users connecting to AWS. Thank you for that direction, though, either way.
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If you find the key issue is linked to RDM, feel free to reply to this thread or make a new one about it.
It would be very interesting to convert keys in other formats to PPK on the fly as it would indeed make it easier for everyone to use this feature. We'll take note of it, thank you.
Regards,
Hubert Mireault
Thanks again. As suspected, it wasn't an RDM issue - it was a user issue ;)
So my key generated bad, once that was fixed, everything worked. I still want to thank you for pointing me to the SSH Shell entry type instead of the SSH Shell (Rebex) though, as that is what helped me isolate the real issue. Not to mention it is easier to setup. :) Not sure what happened with PuTTY working. I think the person who set it up regenerated the key from scratch instead of using the same one I was, but who knows.
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