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Password protecting AMI instance

Author:: Kunal P.Bharati
Date added:: Thursday, 13 August 2009
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Hello All,

I have a Fedora instance running at Amazon EC2.

I log in into the instance using Keypair using following command:

ssh -i key.pem root@instance.com

where key.pem is a keypair and instance.com is a running instance.

I am able to log in into the system without the issues. But I want system to prompt for a password too along with keypair.

How to do it?

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-1 #1 Kunal P.Bharati 2009-08-21 20:36 Tried to figure out how it works. But I guess it doesnt work the way I wanted.
So we decided to go with password login.

I edited the sshd_config file and set the:
PasswordAuthent ication Yes

And disabled the root login..