Comments on: ElasticFox on Mac OS X

By: admin

admin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:34:02 +0000

Glad to help; yeah that one got me stuck for a bit too. I’ve only ever seen that on the Mac.

By: Chris Rowe

Chris Rowe — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:20:03 +0000

Thanks for the chmod tip, I was getting the

WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE!

and that fixed it

chmod go-rw id_[Your keyname]

By: admin

admin — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:32:34 +0000

Oh I should mention - have you tried the Amazon EC2 Console yet? It was released after I made this video - it is really nice and worth giving a try.

https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home

By: admin

admin — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:31:28 +0000

Ah gotcha, glad you were able to find the problem.

Thanks!

Eric.

By: David Walend

David Walend — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:42:09 +0000

Found it. Underscores vs. hyphens. EC2 and ElasticFox use both. The key pairs are id_your-string.

Thanks for the help,

Dave

By: David Walend

David Walend — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:09:18 +0000

I don’t think that’s it. With a space in the secret, I don’t see any images. I’m able to see them and start them. I just can’t log in.

No luck with the pure ubuntu machine either.

What else should I check? I’m going to try the ec2 java tools. If no luck there, I’ll do some deep reading about ssh.

Thanks,

Dave

By: admin

admin — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:26:29 +0000

That could be it - one quick thing to check is when you cut-and-paste the secret from the Amazon web site, you often get a leading or trailing space. That will mess things up. I usually copy it into a text editor and remove spaces.

Thanks!

Eric.

By: David Walend

David Walend — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:21:28 +0000

Thanks for replying.

I’ve got the same problem on Ubuntu (plus the annoying quick close of the terminal).

Using the home lap top instead of the work machine (and my own account instead of the company’s), MacOS, and now Ubuntu via parallels. The file permissions on Ubuntu are just rw.

Any thoughts on what might be wrong? Only thing I can guess is that I’m repeatedly mistyping the secret.

Thanks,

Dave

By: admin

admin — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:04:59 +0000

Hmmm, well my permissions look slightly different for the key. They are:

-rw-r–r– 1 ericlee staff 1675 Feb 23 17:38 newkey.pem

I know Mac OS X is pretty picky about permissions, so not having group read might be causing the problem?

By: David Walend

David Walend — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:15:39 +0000

I’m having trouble establishing the ssh connection. I’m getting

> ssh -i /home/dwalend/ec2-keys/id_dwalend3 root@ec2-75-101-244-122.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Warning: Identity file /home/dwalend/ec2-keys/id_dwalend3 not accessible: No such file or directory.
…

at the prompt.

In ec2-keys:

ls -al

total 40
drwx–x–x 2 dwalend users 4096 Feb 27 16:00 ./
drwxr-xr-x 26 dwalend users 8192 Feb 27 16:00 ../
-rw——- 1 dwalend users 4096 Feb 27 16:00 ._id-dwalend3
-rw——-@ 1 dwalend users 1672 Feb 27 16:00 id-dwalend3

which is a bit odd.

ls -al@

drwx–x–x 2 dwalend users 4096 Feb 27 16:00 ./
drwxr-xr-x 26 dwalend users 8192 Feb 27 16:00 ../
-rw——- 1 dwalend users 4096 Feb 27 16:00 ._id-dwalend3
-rw——-@ 1 dwalend users 1672 Feb 27 16:00 id-dwalend3
com.apple.quarantine 46

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine id-dwalend3

gets rid of the quarantine.

ls -al@

drwx–x–x 2 dwalend users 4096 Feb 27 16:13 ./
drwxr-xr-x 26 dwalend users 8192 Feb 27 16:00 ../
-rw——- 1 dwalend users 1672 Feb 27 16:00 id-dwalend3

but still no love from ssh:

ssh -i /home/dwalend/ec2-keys/id_dwalend3 root@ec2-75-101-244-122.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Warning: Identity file /home/dwalend/ec2-keys/id_dwalend3 not accessible: No such file or directory.
Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-with-mic).

Any thoughts on what to try next?

Thanks,

Dave