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Hello, I am just starting out with using Amazon EC2 and setting up ssh keys. I bought Remoter hoping to use it to SSH into my virtual PCs hosted in Amazon's EC2 cloud.

I have successfully downloaded my key file from Amazon and I am using this to ssh into my host using OS/X terminal.

How do I import my .pem file into Remoter so that I can use this as my terminal session manager?

Thanks

Hi mevilsizor,

I don't have much experience with Amazon EC2.
Is there a way to convert your .pem file to the standard id_rsa format? If so, please try placing it under:
~/.ssh/id_rsa (back up the original one first)
If you're using the App Store version of Remoter, then please create a .ssh directory under:
~/Library/Containers/com.remoterlabs.remotermac/Data/
And place the id_rsa file in there.

For the next version of Remoter, the import button will allow you to select the file with an "open" window.

Thanks!,
Raf.

I think you should be able to extract your public key from the EC2 .pem key pair with the following command:

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ssh-keygen -y -f key.pem > id_rsa.pub

Thanks for the info, Alex. I'll have to test this and include an option to import .pem files directly.

Raf.

Thanks Alex!
Using that command I was able to get the public and private parts of the .pem file into 2 separate files.
From this I was able to import them into a Chrome SSH extension which worked great!

However I am still not understanding how to use these with Remoter.
I start Remoter, then I click Remoter and click the SSH Key Manager and click Import.
It then asked me about pass phrases and I wipe this out and click import and nothing happens.

I don't know how to use this dialog box to navigate to my key pair files?
I see the parenthetical (.ssh/id_rsa) and so I tried putting my files into the .ssh/id_rsa directory when this did not work I tried removing the id_rsa directory and moving the files directly into ~/.ssh.

None of this worked. So I am still not understanding how to import these keys into Remoter.

Thanks

Did you try the latest (beta) version of Remoter? Some changes were done in the key import section.

Find the beta here:
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=549

Raf.