SSHing into Go Servers

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May 13, 2014
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Command

ssh -i thePEMfile.pem ec2-user@servername.com
To automatically select appropriate PEM file, configue ~/.ssh/config
  1. Configure ~/.ssh/config (needed for deployment script to perform command line tasks on AWS instance)

    Host ec2-50-112-42-202.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
        Hostname ec2-50-112-42-202.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
        User ec2-user
        IdentityFile "path/to/openmrs-infrastructure-us_west.pem"

    Host ec2-54-245-143-28.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
        Hostname ec2-54-245-143-28.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
        User ec2-user
        IdentityFile "path/to/openmrs-infrastructure-us_west.pem"

    Host ec2-54-245-1-154.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
        Hostname ec2-54-245-1-154.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
        User ec2-user
        IdentityFile "path/to/openmrs-infrastructure-us_west.pem"

For Windows

Load .PEM file into PuTTY Key Generator (PuTTYGen) > Save private key as a *.ppk

Loading the *.ppk in Connection > SSH > Auth > Private key file for authentication