Hi Chris,

Are you logging in as "ubuntu" as the user? Also, can you send the debug
output (http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.58/htmldoc/Chapter4.html
). 

Thanks,
Ben



On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 12:14 -0400, Johnson, Chris M (Dublin) wrote:
> I’m experiencing a strange result in using an Ubuntu AMI on EC2 that
> doesn’t occur when using an Amazon Linux AMI.  Your thoughts would be
> appreciated!
> 
>  
> 
> When I create a new instance of
> ebs/ubuntu-images/ubuntu-natty-11.04-amd64-server-20110426
> (ami-1aad5273), I pick an existing keypair.  When the new instance
> starts up and I attempt to connect (using Putty), I get an error
> saying “Server refused our key”.  When I read the server log, I can
> see new RSA and DSA keys are being generated.  It appears the instance
> isn’t using my existing key pair.
> 
>  
> 
> However if I spin up a new instance of the Amazon Linux AMI and follow
> the exact same procedure, I am able to connect using the existing key
> pair.
> 
>  
> 
> Is there a difference between how SSH credentials are managed for
> Ubuntu and Amazon AMI’s?  Or maybe I’m doing something wrong.
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Regards
> 
> -- Chris
> 
> 

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