EC2 login without keypair

[Digvijay_Singh]

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.

[Amrutha]

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

1. Create a password for the user.

sudo passwd amrutha

1. 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! =)

[Digvijay_Singh]

It worked for me. Thanks a lot