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Note that the file permissions of the private key file must be set such that the file is only readable by the user. In the example sample output above, the permissions are set to 400. This means that the only access is read-access by the user.
To connect to the instance interactively, you must connect as the user sshuser, use . Use the following command:
$ ssh -o ServerAliveInterval=30 -i <path-to-your-private key> sshuser@<AWS-public-IP-address> |
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Note that this account allows root access to a limited subset of commands (use sudo -i). In particular, commands that are required to create more complex network configurations are allowed.
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