Comments on: 4 easy steps to enable remote desktop on your ubuntu ec2 instance

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By: admin

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:18:17 +0000

In order to edit the file, you need to use sudo. Use the following command:
sudo vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config
You have to be a super user in order to edit that file.

But were you able to use a password with putty? You cannot get in using a password until you edit the file.

By: Kreg Holgerson

Kreg Holgerson — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:13:38 +0000

I tried following your directions using an image on Amazon AWS called “ubuntu-images-testing-us/ubuntu-lucid-daily-i386-server-20100302.manifest.xml”.

I was able to use Putty to get on the machine as user “ubuntu”.

I hit a problem on your step 3 – “Edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config and set PasswordAuthentication to yes.” The permissions were set such that I was not able to edit or delete the file.

Can you provide some guidance on how to edit the sshd_config file?

Thank you