You should scp the key-pair to EC2 machine

Jeff Zhang

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Something Something <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Trying to start a Hadoop cluster on EC2.  (Yes, Cloudera's distribution
> works well, but trying to do this myself so I can learn what's happening
> behind the scene.)
>
> I have a Master & a Slave.  When I start HDFS on the master, I get a
> message
> saying "10.xxx.xxx.xxx (Permission denied)" - where 10.xxx is IP address of
> the slave.
>
> Basic problem (I think) is that I can't ssh from the master EC2 instance to
> the Slave EC2 instance.  What's the best way to fix it?  I think I need the
> "Key Pair" file on my master.  I have a key pair on my local machine, but
> how do I transfer it to the EC2 machine?  (I know, I know, I agree.. I am
> dumb :)  Should I FTP it?
>
> Please help.  Thanks.
>

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