[cs615asa] HW3: SSH Keyfile

[Tejas]

If you leave it out it will still use the id_rsa private key in your .SSH folder as default. You only use -i for a non default one. 

Rob Williams <rwillia2 at stevens.edu> wrote:

>Got another question for the list/Professor.
>
>I'm assuming that we are all using key files to authenticate with the
>instances. We have discussed in a previous e-mail that using
>EC2_RUN_INSTANCES_FLAGS to specify the "-k [mykey]" option is how we
>should go about this. However, we also will need to specify the key
>when using SSH to connect to the newly created instance (to interact
>with the attached EBS volume). This would require a "-i [path to key]"
>option as far as I know. Are we supposed to handle this in some
>specific way, or are there environment variables we should assume to
>be set to support this?
>
>Let me know, Thanks,
>
>Rob
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