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Jeevan Dongre
Asked: 2013-03-05 22:35:25 +0800 CST

bootstrapping an ubuntu ec2 instance using chef and knife

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I am bootstrapping a ec2 ubuntu based chef node using chef, it creates an instance but it says Failed to authenticate ubuntu - trying password authand asks for the password. But a newly created ubuntu ec2 instance will not have any kind of password set. Throws an error 

ERROR: Net::SSH::AuthenticationFailed: [email protected]

How do I bypass this event and also whats the problem, do I have to make any changes in the configurations.

Kindly help me I am new to the chef.

ubuntu

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    My guess is you aren't using this

    -i IDENTITY_FILE, --identity-file IDENTITY_FILE
The SSH identity file used for authentication. Key-based authentication is recommended.
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  2. You can also use "ssh-agent" and use "ssh-add" on you private key to let ssh know you want to use it, without specifying the "-i" option with invocation of ssh.

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