SSHing into EC2 server via gives error Please login as the ec2-user user rather than root user

Question

The question as the title. Why is this, I have used the ssh command: ssh -i mykey.pem [email protected] But I get that error, find nothing on google. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

First, log in as the ec2-user:

ssh -i yourkey.pem ec2-user@host

Then use sudo to run the required commands, for example, to edit the files in /etc/hosts file which is owned by root which obviously requires root privileges: sudo nano /etc/hosts

Also, to avoid typing sudo every time, use sudo su to become a superuser with root privileges