[cs615asa] What's the X.509 certificate used for?

zding4 zding4 at stevens.edu
Tue Jan 27 13:11:40 EST 2015


在 01/27/2015 1:05 PM,hchen29 写道:
> On 01/27/2015 12:36 PM, hchen29 wrote:
>> Hello,
>> From the article online "How To: Getting Started with Amazon EC2",
>> there is a X.509 certificate should be downloaded first and a private
>> key as well. I want to know what this is used for. I think if we want
>> to launch an EC2 instance with ssh, we should produce another
>> key-pair. So i'm confused with this X.509 certificate and the private
>> key gerated at the beginning.
>> 
>> Hanxiong Chen,
>> 01/27/2015
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> Sorry for the wrong spelling. It's "gerated" =>"generated". In
> addition, is this certification and keypair is used for the
> verification of the communication between local linux system and
> Amazon Server? I mean, if we want to use AWS CLI to connect to the
> server, we need this key-pair, right?
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Check the AWS IAM(Identity and Access Management).
For one aws account, you need to create a administrative group and add 
one user.

Sincerely,
Zhizhuo


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