Mac OS X "permission denied" on first attempt to connect

[system]

I am trying to connect for the first time to the wowza instance on ec2 that was generated by the aws console. I ran this command:

ec2-add-keypair wowza-keypair

and got a keypair. I saved this as wowza-keypair in my .ec2 folder.

I ran chmod 600 on it, then

ssh -i wowza-keypair root@[amazon instance name.com]

and I get this:

Warning: Identity file wowza-keypair not accessible: No such file or directory.

Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-with-mic).

Any suggestions?

[Charlie_Good]

I think this file needs to be in the same folder from which you are running the ssh command. See if that helps.

Charlie

[Richard_Lanham]

If you are using the ElasticFox console, you can generate a keypair, and associate it with an instance when you start it. It’s very easy, no moving it around or chmod.

Richard