I have a similar question to this other question, but the info provided doesn’t help me.
I set up a CentOS HVM instance on AWS to learn Linux. My initial (root?) account centos
can log in fine using the initial key pair I created on AWS console. Using PuTTY (after PuTTYgen to generate teh appropriate kley foromat locally), on login I was presented with the key challenge and I elected "yes" to save it locally.
I don't know where the (separate) login challenge key is stored locally on my Windows laptop when I initially logged into the server using that account. It must be stored by username or Windows username. I only know where the PuTTYgen-converted PPK file is.
I created a second user on the Linux box ec2usr
. I set is password using sudo passwd. I want to test this new account by logging in with it from PuTTY, but I get that same message - even though I directed PuTTY to the same PPK key file I'm using with my centos
account login that works.
I have only created one key pair on AWS console.
I've tried loading the AWS console key pair fingerprint from that key pair into PuTTY, it still doesn't work.
When I attempt to login I never get a chance to save the challenge key - it should prompt me to do this and it doesn't. Why not?
Nothing out of the ordinary here - this is as basic as it gets. What am I missing?
If I'm using PAgeant I don't know it, I doubt that I am.