enable-password-ssh.MD

When you first log into the EC2 instances on AWS , you can only ssh using key pairs.

so the command to log in looks something like this:

ssh -i mykey.pem [email protected] 

But what if you want to enable password ssh?

We can follow these steps :

1. Create an EC2 instance. If you have one already , skip this step.
2. Become the super user and open the sshd config file

sudo su
vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config

3. Change the PasswordAuthentication no config to

PasswordAuthentication yes

4. Restart the sshd daemon

service sshd restart

5. set the password for the ec2 user /or create new user

passwd ec2-user
adduser bob
passwd bob

6. Exit out and try loggin into the EC2 using the password

ssh [email protected] 

you should now be logged in without using the .pem file