Permission denied to connect to Amazon EC2 using SSH at Windows 8

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I'm starting using Amazon EC2 service. I have installed an Amazon Linux instance, set the PEM file, opened the SSH ports and installed a GIT service. My local environment it's Windows 8. Through putty and WinSCP I can connect without problems. I have followed the docs and converted my PEM file to a PPK and everything works fine. The problem is when I try to do a git push from my local machine. I always get a "permission denied (public key)" when I try to connect. I have made a ssh-add to PEM file using the git bash, generated a custom key trough the GIT Bash and added this key to the key pars at the EC2 Instance and nothing works... If I try (using git bash) a ssh -i and specify the PEM file, I have a connection. ``` ssh -i c:/[PATH]/[PEM-FILE].pem ec2-user@[HOST].compute.amazonaws.com ``` If I try without -i, no connection. ``` $ ssh ec2-user@[HOST].compute.amazonaws.com Permission denied (publickey). ``` Here follows the trace with -vT command: ``` ssh -vT ec2-user@[HOST].compute.am…

Accepted Answer

After several tries, I found an article with some instructions here https://serverfault.com/questions/194567/how-do-i-tell-git-for-windows-where-to-find-my-private-rsa-key

I followed these steps: "After you have the home directory, and a .ssh folder under that, you want to open PuTTYgen and open the key (.ppk file) you have previously created. Once your key is open, you want to select Conversions -> Export OpenSSH key and save it to HOME.ssh\id_rsa. After you have the key at that location, Git bash will recognize the key and use it"

Permission denied to connect to Amazon EC2 using SSH at Windows 8

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