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how to create password less ssh between two AWS EC2 instances?

Former Member — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 14:02:26 GMT

how to create password less ssh between 2 AWS EC2 instances.

Re: how to create password less ssh between two AWS EC2 instances?

subhash_parise3 — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 14:46:41 GMT

I assuming both are linux servers.

Please folllow the steps in mentioned url: http://www.tecmint.com/ssh-passwordless-login-using-ssh-keygen-in-5-easy-steps/

Re: how to create password less ssh between two AWS EC2 instances?

Former Member — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:10:10 GMT

Hi @subhash parise i know how to create password less ssh in linux. but i dont kown how to create password less ssh in ec2 instances.

Re: how to create password less ssh between two AWS EC2 instances?

subhash_parise3 — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:13:49 GMT

Hi @kishore sanchina,

same mechanism will apply ec2 instances also 🙂

Re: how to create password less ssh between two AWS EC2 instances?

cstanca — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 02:05:05 GMT

@kishore sanchina

Subash is correct. It is not that different.

Pre-reqs:

1. access to your EC2 machine and using the pem key or credentials with root permissions.

2. already setup RSA keys on your local machine. Private key and public key are available at "~/.ssh/id_rsa" and "~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub", respectively.

Steps:

Create a new user

useradd -m <yourname> 
sudo su <yourname>
cd 
mkdir -p ~/.ssh
touch ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

Append contents of file ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub on you local machine to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on EC2 machine.

chmod -R 700 ~/.ssh
chmod 600 ~/.ssh/*

Check whether ssh-ing is permitted by the machine. It should. In /etc/ssh/sshd_config, line containing "PasswordAuthentication yes" is uncommented. Restart sshd service if you make any change in this file:
```
service sshd restart # On Centos
service ssh restart # On Ubuntu
```
Your passwordless login should work now. Try following on your local machine:
```
ssh -A <yourname>@ec2-xx-xx-xxx-xxx.ap-southeast-1.compute.amazonaws.com
```

Making yourself a super user. Open /etc/sudoers. Make sure following two lines are uncommented:

## Allows people in group wheel to run all commands
%wheel ALL=(ALL)       ALL

## Same thing without a password
%wheel ALL=(ALL)       NOPASSWD: ALL

Add yourself to wheel group.

usermod -aG wheel <yourname>

Try it and let me know.

Re: how to create password less ssh between two AWS EC2 instances?

ajreddy_bana — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 14:28:05 GMT

Kishore.. enable the below parameter under /etc/ssh/sshd_config

# To disable tunneled clear text passwords, change to no here!

PasswordAuthentication yes

and add the hostnames under /etc/hosts.. then follow the regular ssh procedure.

Hi Kishore,

to create password less ssh, first enable "authenticationpassword yes" option under /etc/ssh/sshd_config. add hostnames under /etc/hosts . then follow the regular ssh procedure. first check the ping is working from one instance to other or not?

Re: how to create password less ssh between two AWS EC2 instances?

bon_d — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 20:25:56 GMT

Hi how can i do the same with a local system running Windows?

Re: how to create password less ssh between two AWS EC2 instances?

jsensharma — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 22:08:16 GMT

@David Bon-Salomon

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/putty.html

Re: how to create password less ssh between two AWS EC2 instances?

bon_d — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 14:33:09 GMT

Thanks @Jay SenSharma. I used this document but I can't achieve what I want to do : setup password-less SSH between my EC2 instances running RHEL7 from my local machine running Windows. I've open a new thread (here) to give more details.

Re: how to create password less ssh between two AWS EC2 instances?

sandeepksaini — Sun, 19 Nov 2017 07:11:46 GMT

This is probably the best link which I have found on how to setup the passwordless login using ssh-copy-id command on ec-2 instances.

https://superuser.com/questions/331167/why-cant-i-ssh-copy-id-to-an-ec2-instance

Probably, this might help.

Re: how to create password less ssh between two AWS EC2 instances?

shahill_shaik — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 11:28:20 GMT

https://superuser.com/questions/331167/why-cant-i-ssh-copy-id-to-an-ec2-instance

Go through above link it will help you to findout easily