yes I agree. There wont be any "login by password" authentication for images that are provided by Amazon.Theres only key based authentication
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Frederick Cheung <[email protected] > wrote: --Siva > > > On 7 Dec 2011, at 05:34, Geo Manickam <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I am trying to deploy my rails application to EC2 Instance with > > Cano from local git repository as a "root" user. I am following > > this > http://blog.bhushangahire.net/2010/02/17/setup-capistrano-to-deploy-rails-application-on-amazon-ec2-with-git/ > > url. > > > > I am having trouble with this step below. > > > > 5: Copy your SSH public key to your EC2 node > > $ scp -i ~/my-ec2-keypair ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub root@ec2-xxx-xxx-xxx- > > xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com:/root/.ssh/authorized_keys2 > > NOTE the filename authorized_keys2 – not authorized_keys!! > > > > How can I copy my public key to EC2? when i tried to run command i > > also get "Please login as the ec2-user user rather than root user." > > > If you're using the amazon Linux AMIs (the default) then ssh access for > root is turned off. I don't know why those instructions tell you to do > everything as root - there's really no reason to. I just use the default > ec2-user for stuff that doesn't need special privileges > > Fred > > > > any help on this appreciated. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
