Re: Starting Hadoop cluster on EC2

[Steve Loughran]

Something Something wrote:
As per Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_copy)  "It does so by
connecting to the host using SSH and there executes an SCP server (scp)".
So if SSH isn't working SCP won't work, either.  In any case I tried to scp
but getting "Permission denied (public key)".

when you create a VM on EC2 you give it the public key you want to 
SCP/SSH in on.