SSH EC2 asking for password

Question

I've just setup my EC2 server following this video here exactly - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBajLxeKqoY

I even chose the same server type, everything went well until it asked for the root password to my EC2 server...

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Update

Updating this answer because of the activity:

Depending on if the system is ubuntu or Rhel the user varies.

For ubuntu it is

ssh -i my-pem-file.pem ubuntu@my-ec2-instance-address 

For RHEL it is

ssh -i my-pem-file.pem root@my-ec2-instance-address 

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Connecting to an ec2 instance does not require a password, it would require only a pem file and this is how you connect to it

ssh -i my-pem-file.pem ec2-user@my-instance-address 

and remember to chmod 400 your pem file before ssh'ing

Answer 2

If you need to do things as root once you are in as ec2-user, use sudo su - that gets you to root and doesn't need a password. Somethings you do need that for, like looking at the tomcat log files