If you’re on a Mac, follow these instructions:ġ) Find your. How to fix the unprotected private key file error? Therefore, the server simply ignores the private key. Said differently, security measures recommend that your private key files (.pem file) are NOT accessible by others. Unfortunately, that’s not good enough for your server to accept and therefore it denies access as a security precaution. pem file is likely sitting on your Desktop or Downloads folder, it has a permission code of 0644. Quite simply, EC2 instances will not accept a.
Why are you getting the unprotected private key file error?
It is recommended that your private key files are NOT accessible by others.īad permissions: ignore key: amazonec2.pem It looks like this: WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE! 0644 for 'youramazon.pem' are too open. So for all the newbies to AWS who are dabbling in that complex ecosystem of command line, you’ll probably get the following error sooner or later when trying to SSH into your EC2 instance. On that note, today I’m going to give you the 1 line that you need to fix the permission error when SSH into Amazon EC2 instance. Sometimes a short post that helps others solve a problem is worth more than a 2,000-word epic post.
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