Need help in copying public key for a new user to EC2

Need help for uploading a public key for a new EC2 (AMI) user to tmp folder. Any help on this appreciated.

Follow the steps AWS Articles i.e not able to pass this step "Copy all the public key files that you generated to a temporary place on your instance:"

Steps:

1. SSH into my EC2 instance and logged in as su 2. Created a user "geoman" and with a password. 3. Now in my mac notebook in the shell created a private and public key for the user ssh-keygen -b 1024 -f geoman -t dsa 4. Now try to copy the geoman.pub file using the commands 4.1 command : scp -v -i amazon-ec2-ticket-ws-key-pair.pem geoman.pub root@ec2-xx-xxx-x-xx.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:/tmp/geoman.pub 4.2 command : scp -v -i amazon-ec2-ticket-ws-key-pair.pem geoman.pub ec2-user@ec2-xx-xxx-x-xx.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:/tmp/ geoman.pub

Result:

Permission denied (publickey). lost connection

Shell Output:

OpenSSH_5.6p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config debug1: Applying options for * debug1: Connecting to ec2-50-112-3-25.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com http://50.112.3.25 port 22. debug1: Connection established. debug1: identity file amazon-ec2-ticket-ws-key-pair.pem type -1 debug1: identity file amazon-ec2-ticket-ws-key-pair.pem-cert type -1 debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_5.3 debug1: match: OpenSSH_5.3 pat OpenSSH* debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0 debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.6 debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received debug1: kex: server->client aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none debug1: kex: client->server aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(1024<1024<8192) sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY debug1: Host 'ec2-50-112-3-25.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com' is known and matches the RSA host key. debug1: Found key in /Users/geoman/.ssh/known_hosts:9 debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received debug1: Roaming not allowed by server debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Offering RSA public key: /Users/geoman/.ssh/id_rsa debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey debug1: Trying private key: amazon-ec2-ticket-ws-key-pair.pem debug1: read PEM private key done: type RSA debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey debug1: No more authentication methods to try. Permission denied (publickey). lost connection

Need help for uploading a public key for a new EC2 (AMI) user to tmp folder. Any help on this appreciated.

Follow the stepshttp://aws.amazon.com/articles/1233i.e not able to pass this step "Copy all the public key files that you generated to a temporary place on your instance:"

Steps:

1. SSH into my EC2 instance and logged in as su 2. Created a user "geoman" and with a password. 3. Now in my mac notebook in the shell created a private and public key for the user ssh-keygen -b 1024 -f geoman -t dsa 4. Now try to copy the geoman.pub file using the commands 4.1 command : scp -v -i amazon-ec2-ticket-ws-key-pair.pem geoman.pub root@ec2-xx-xxx-x-xx.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:/tmp/geoman.pub 4.2 command : scp -v -i amazon-ec2-ticket-ws-key-pair.pem geoman.pub ec2-user@ec2-xx-xxx-x-xx.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:/tmp/ geoman.pub

If you're using the default amazon linux image, you won't be able to scp in as root - root has remote access disabled. You need to sep in using whatever user/credentials you used in 1. That article looks a little out of date. If you're using the aforementioned linux image (it's the default) then most of what it describes is already setup for you. Lastly this isn't really anything to do with rails - there are probably more suitable areas for discussing this (e.g. the official aws forum, which has a bunch of amazon employees contributing)

Fred