EC2 login without keypair

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#1

I do not want to use keypairs everytime I login to my ec2 instance. Is there an alternative? Please help me out with this.
Thanks in advance.

#2

Hey Digvijay, you can instead set up password based login for your instance.
Here’s how you can do so:

  1. Create a user account.

    adduser amrutha
    (or)
    For older versions:

    sudo useradd -m amrutha

  2. Create a password for the user.

    sudo passwd amrutha

  3. You can give root permissions for the user.

    sudo visudo

In the above file add, amrutha ALL=(ALL)ALL
under the line, root ALL=(ALL)ALL

  1. You can enable password based authentication.
    sudo vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Uncomment the line - PasswordAuthentication yes

  1. Finally, reload ssh configuartion.
    sudo /etc/init.d/ssh reload
    (or)
    Daemon:
    sudo /etc/init.d/sshd reload

Now you can logout and login back with your username and check that it worked.

Hope this helps! =)

#3

It worked for me. Thanks a lot :slight_smile: