You have generated a certificate file: openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout test.key -out test.pem
After deploying the key, you try to ssh into the instance but get prompted for a password. ssh -vvv -i test.pem <user>@<host> ————— This is an issue with an updated openssl version, > openssl versionOpenSSL 1.0.1k 8 Jan 2015 This is a new version of openssl. The new version does not create the key with RSA at the begin and end. So you have to use a separate command to convert the key file to old version of ssh openssl rsa -in test.key -out test_new.key Once that is done, use the new file for ssh. ssh -vv -i test_new.key <user>@<host>
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