EC2 SCP Access (GUI)

[RasputinDude]

If you want a GUI, you could try ForkLift

[stek]

Did this on my (non-EC2) remote box, works!!

$ ssh-keygen -t rsa

$ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh -p 1022 user@123.45.56.78 "mkdir -p ~/.ssh && cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys"

I used no passphrase and have ssh on port 1022 for a hint of security....

[stek]

Will give that a go in the morning thanks, sounds like an idea. I am 3 beers in now so best not to touch something as frustrating as EC2.

And second ODI is on!

[clearedforlanding]

Can you not do the normal Unix thing, ssh-keygen an RSA key on MacOs and paste into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on server end?

Will give that a go in the morning thanks, sounds like an idea. I am 3 beers in now so best not to touch something as frustrating as EC2.

[stek]

Thanks for your help.

Yep it is an absolute faff. Put all your security in a file stored on a local drive.

It's not like anyone can boot a Mac in single user mode is it?

Can you not do the normal Unix thing, ssh-keygen an RSA key on MacOs and paste into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on server end?

[clearedforlanding]

Just 'works' for me! Locally and remotely.

I didn't mess around with pem files though, why do you need to do that? Is it an EC2 thing? Mabes you just need to generate a key pair and add to authorized_hosts?

ssh-copy-id might work for you in that case....

EDIT: just checked EC2 - what a faff!!

Thanks for your help.

Yep it is an absolute faff. Put all your security in a file stored on a local drive.

It's not like anyone can boot a Mac in single user mode is it?

[stek]

Yup.

I'm baffled.

It's a lovely piece of software though. Will be perfect when I get it working.

Just 'works' for me! Locally and remotely.

I didn't mess around with pem files though, why do you need to do that? Is it an EC2 thing? Mabes you just need to generate a key pair and add to authorized_hosts?

ssh-copy-id might work for you in that case....

EDIT: just checked EC2 - what a faff!!

[clearedforlanding]

Yup.

I'm baffled.

It's a lovely piece of software though. Will be perfect when I get it working.

[stek]

Stek,

You can't point me to A walk through for this that actually works. Everything I find is tulip.

Saved pem to ~/.ssh/cfl.pem
Created ~/.ssh/config
IdentityFile "~/.ssh/cfl.pem"
chmod 700 ~/.ssh/cfl.pem

restarted SSH daemon.

Now stumped by user/pass credentials I should give.

Did you set protocol in Transmit to SFTP (it defaults to FTP)....

[clearedforlanding]

Stek,

You can't point me to A walk through for this that actually works. Everything I find is tulip.

Saved pem to ~/.ssh/cfl.pem
Created ~/.ssh/config
IdentityFile "~/.ssh/cfl.pem"
chmod 700 ~/.ssh/cfl.pem

restarted SSH daemon.

Now stumped by user/pass credentials I should give.

[stek]

Getting back into EC2 for a little side project I have on the back burner.

Any recommendation for a GUI SCP client for MacOS? I am finding the command line quite tedious for the volume and nature of transfers I am doing.

Transmit from panic.com

[clearedforlanding]

Getting back into EC2 for a little side project I have on the back burner.

Any recommendation for a GUI SCP client for MacOS? I am finding the command line quite tedious for the volume and nature of transfers I am doing.