[ec2] Connecting as non Ubuntu User

[Rodney T. Quillo]

Kolo, 

On SSH error, public key did you specify the keypair to be used when you 
connect to your new user? 

     ssh -i keypair newuser at public_hostname

Rodney

On Wednesday 26 August 2009 19:55:11 Rolo M wrote:
> Hiya.  I've recently moved over from using the Eric Hammond images to
> the official Ubuntu ones, and am having some probs getting used to the
> new ubuntu user way of doing things.  Some of these may be more
> general Linux questions so please feel free to point me elsewhere if
> this is the wrong place to ask, but any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> I've launched an instance (Hardy) and I can connect fine via SSH using
> ubuntu@<hostname>.  I've created two other users, one for django, to
> run my apps, and one for my username, kolo.
>
> Would it be considered the best way of doing things to continue to
> connect via the ubuntu user, and then su to my kolo user account?  I
> was presuming it would be best to create a new user account to connect
> via, and then disable the ubuntu user? (is there any other problem
> with disabling the ubuntu user's SSH access?) Otherwise should I be
> telling other people working on the box would be connecting via the
> ubuntu user as well?
>
> Presuming I'm best to be connecting via my own account, I've put my
> SSH key in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys for both the ubuntu user and my own
> user, and infact I can connect with the ubuntu user and authoize with
> my key now, but when I try and user my account I get Permission denied
> (publickey). (ssh output with -v is pasted below).
>
> What am I missing?  Also, if I su to another user I lose the terminal
> colours.  I presume this is because it's not setting the shell
> correctly?  All of my user's shells are set to /bin/bash, is there
> some other setting I'm missing?  Will my ~/.bash* files get processed
> when I su?
>
> Thanks loads for any assistance!  Sorry if it's a bit of a ramble.  Cheers.
>
> Kolo.
>
> --->
> debug1: Found key in /home/kolo/.ssh/known_hosts:17
> debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
> debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
> debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
> debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
> debug1: Trying private key: /home/kolo/.ssh/identity
> debug1: Offering public key: /home/kolo/.ssh/id_rsa
> debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
> debug1: Trying private key: /home/kolo/.ssh/id_dsa
> debug1: No more authentication methods to try.
> Permission denied (publickey).

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