=========================================================== Logging into your new instance "in the cloud" (Mac version) =========================================================== First, download a security key, in a .pem file, from: http://athyra.idyll.org/~t/uw-bootcamp.pem Save it to your Desktop (or download it and then move it to your desktop). Next, start Terminal (in Applications... Utilities...) and type:: chmod og-rwx ~/Desktop/uw-bootcamp.pem to set the permissions on the private key file to "closed to all evildoers". Then type:: ssh -i ~/Desktop/uw-bootcamp.pem root@ec2-???-???-???-???.compute-1.amazonaws.com Here, you're logging in as user 'root' to the machine 'ec2-174-129-122-189.compute-1.amazonaws.com' using the authentication key located in 'uw-bootcamp.pem' on your Desktop. Note, you have to replace the stuff after the '@' sign with the name of the host; see the red circle in: .. image:: images/ec2-dashboard-instance-name.png :width: 50% ---- At the end you should see text and a prompt that look like this: .. image:: images/win-putty-4.png :width: 50%