Passwordless SSH to AWS EC2 instances

Опубликовано: 23 Февраль 2026
на канале: Neraj Garg
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Instance 1 - From which we want to connect to instance 2
Instance 2 - To which we want to connect from instance 1

Steps:
Run the following command on instance 1
ssh-keygen -t rsa -N "" -f /home/ubuntu/.ssh/id_rsa

Copy the content from the file /home/ubuntu/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

Login to instance 2
run the following command, create the directory and file:
touch /home/ubuntu/.ssh/authorized_keys

paste the content from the id_rsa.pub file of instance 1 into this file (using any editor, vi or nano)
save the file

Go back to instance 1 (run the following command)
ssh username@ip-of-other-instance
ssh [email protected]

You should be able to connect to the instance 2 from within instance 1 now

Chapters
An Introduction 00:00
Connecting to AWS EC2 instances 02:32
Generate a private key / configure password less ssh 02:54
Connecting to other EC2 instance using password less SSH 05:44
Validating the ssh password less connection 06:51

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