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waxical
Asked: 2011-11-08 10:10:16 +0800 CST

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I'm working with Apache on an ec2 box. I'm trying to generate keys for a user, apache on the system.

However, I don't have permission, because it's ec2. So, I sudo - and get asked for a password for sudo apache. I have no password. I can not set a password.

I use keys to access the systems via these users.

How on earth am I meant to generate a key for apache to use?

linux apache-2.2 password users

2 Answers

  1. Keys are associated with users by storing them in the authorized_keys file in the .ssh directory of the user's home folder.

    • Generate your key using ec2-create-keypair
    • Save the private key (and move it off the server)
    • Sudo to root (either preface the following commands with sudo, or try sudo -i) - on Amazon's Linux AMI you do not need a password (I don't know what AMI you are using).
    • Append the public key to the /users/home/folder/.ssh/authorized_keys file.
      • If the .ssh folder doesn't exist, create it (mkdir /users/home/folder/.ssh) and set permissions to 700.
      • If the file (authorized_keys) does not exist, you can simply move the public key created by ec2-create-keypair to the correct folder (and rename it authorized_keys). Permissions should be set to 600 or less.
      • If there is already an authorized_keys file, append to it, using something like cat ec2_public_key.pub >> /users/home/folder/.ssh/authorized_keys

    The key is associated with the user by virtue of the fact it is within the user's home folder, and accessible only by that user. You may also need to permit SSH access for the specified user in etc/ssh/sshd_config as well as to change the shell associated with that user.

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