error aws login Permission denied publickey

Question

Hi Guys,

I am trying to login to my EC2 instance from the Linux system. But it is showing me the below error.

error: aws login 'Permission denied (publickey)' 

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You need to set the permissions for the key. Otherwise, aws will not allow you to log in. You can sue the below command.

$ chmod 600 ec2-keypair.pem
$ ssh -i ec2-keypair.pem ec2-user IP