Re: Amazon EC2: RSA Key generation

Make sure the password for that connection is indeed blank. If the
server ever got to the RSA key (and didn't like it), you would see a
message along the lines of "Server refused our key" instead as an
error.

Dean

On Apr 28, 1:37 pm, Sean <seanca...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Question for you regarding iSSH and Amazon EC2:  I'm trying to connect
> to my Amazon EC2 server by generating a RSA key on iSSH, then copying
> the public key over to my EC2 server.  I've been following the general
> outline provided by Ryan Wilson on his blog:
>
> http://blog.augmentedfragments.com/2008/09/connecting-to-ec2-from-iss...
>
> Steps I have taken so far on iSSH:
>
> Load iSSH
> General Settings
> Generate RSA Key
> Email Public Key to myself
>
> On my server:
>
> cd .ssh
> Edit authorized_keys
> Add the public key: ssh-rsa blahblahblah-iphone-rsa-key-todaysdate
> Save and exit
> Restart SSH: sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart
>
> Back on iSSH:
>
> Create new configuration
> Host: <my server ip>
> Port: Default
> Login: <my user name>
> Use RSA Key: On
> The rest are set to defaults
>
> Now, I can successfully connect to the server, but I receive the
> following authentication error:
>
> Connection Failed
> Disconnected: No supported authentication methods available
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
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