By default
Once you login with
$sudo su -
Edit the SSH daemon configuration file
Reload the SSH daemon configuration by running:
root
user is not allowed to login but you can use ec2-user
as indicated by others.Once you login with
ec2-user
you switch to root
and change the SSH configuration.$sudo su -
Edit the SSH daemon configuration file
/etc/ssh/sshd_config
Make changes
PermitRootLogin without-passwordReload the SSH daemon configuration by running:
/etc/init.d/sshd reload
Next time you just need to do
$sudo su - and you would be a root user.
confirm this by id - command
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