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Isaac_S__177992
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Nov 21, 2014

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Upon launching an F5 BIG-IP VE AMI on EC2 (I'm using the 25Mbps trial edition), I notice that I can establish SSH connection to the instance (as well as HTTPS connection), but can't log in at all.  ...
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Mike_Dayton_108's avatar
Mike_Dayton_108
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Nov 21, 2014

Did you try username root password default over SSH?

 

  • Riley_Schuit_82's avatar
    Riley_Schuit_82
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    Nov 21, 2014
    That will not work, it will require to use host based authentication in AWS.
  • Isaac_S__177992's avatar
    Isaac_S__177992
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    Nov 21, 2014
    Yes. root/default gets me "Access denied".
  • Riley_Schuit_82's avatar
    Riley_Schuit_82
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    Nov 22, 2014
    Just for informations sake; he is talking about how the root account's (that can not be accessed via the web interface) default password is 'default'. In AWS, you need to login via ssh as root that ties into your ssh key, then you can alter the admin password via the passwd command.