[galaxy-dev] Private key file format issue (for connecting EC2 instance with EBS volume)

2012-04-18 Thread Mohammad Heydarian
Hello,
I am trying to connect an EC2 instance to an EBS volume.

I have attached the EBS volume to the EC2 instance (running Galaxy). I now
need to mount the EBS volume to the EC2 instance. To do this I will use
Putty to make the connection. But first I have to convert the private key
from .pem format to .ppk format. I am trying to use Puttygen for the
conversion, but the .pem file is not recognized and I get this error
message:

Could't load private key (key file does not begin with OpenSSH key header)

Does anyone have experience with this?

BTW, I am using windows.

Thanks!
Cheers,
Mo Heydarian
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Re: [galaxy-dev] Private key file format issue (for connecting EC2 instance with EBS volume)

2012-04-18 Thread Dannon Baker
Mo,

I just tested one of my amazon keys with PuTTYgen and the default settings and 
it worked.  Can you verify the contents of the .pem file you're using for me?  
On windows I'd open it in http://notepad-plus-plus.org/ or a similar utility to 
see it correctly.  

The file should look something like this, with both start and end lines.

-BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-
about 20 lines of random characters
-END RSA PRIVATE KEY-

And, lastly, the amazon documentation at 
http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonEC2/gsg/2006-06-26/ says to make sure 
the file ends with a newline character or it won't work with PuTTYgen, so 
that's something to look for.

-Dannon

On Apr 18, 2012, at 3:29 PM, Mohammad Heydarian wrote:

 Hello,
 I am trying to connect an EC2 instance to an EBS volume. 
 
 I have attached the EBS volume to the EC2 instance (running Galaxy). I now 
 need to mount the EBS volume to the EC2 instance. To do this I will use Putty 
 to make the connection. But first I have to convert the private key from 
 .pem format to .ppk format. I am trying to use Puttygen for the 
 conversion, but the .pem file is not recognized and I get this error 
 message:
 
 Could't load private key (key file does not begin with OpenSSH key header)
 
 Does anyone have experience with this?
 
 BTW, I am using windows.
 
 Thanks! 
 Cheers, 
 Mo Heydarian
 
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