[cs615asa] ec2 key name for hw6

marc bassil mbassil at stevens.edu
Wed Mar 30 21:16:10 EDT 2016


Hi Professor,
the man page for hw6 states: 
ec2-backup also assumes that the user has set up their ~/.ssh/config
file to access instances in EC2 via ssh(1) without any additional
settings.

When creating a new aws instance, the aws cli requires a key name to be
passed in as an argument. Do we assume that the user will pass the
correct one for their instance in the env variable?
Otherwise, the tool would have to parse ~/.ssh/config, enumerate
the user's keys in aws comparing fingerprints, and finding a match for the
key in the ssh config file.


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