Amazon EC2 root login

  • Create ec2 instance
  • Xshell login

ec2-user with rsa

sudo su

Init your password for root user

passwd

change ssh config enable root login

vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config

PermitRootLogin yes
PasswordAuthentication yes
Restart sshd

service sshd restart

Then you can login amazon ec2 with root user