Identifying the SSH user name of the RHEL instance on AWS

Last Updated : May 14, 2019 |

About this task

You will require the user name to login to the RHEL instance. This is applicable for software-only deployments.

Before you begin

Create RHEL instance on Amazon Web Services.

Procedure

  1. Log on to the Amazon Web Services management console.
  2. Click Servers > EC2.
  3. In the right-pane, select the RHEL instance you created.
  4. On the top of the page, click Actions > Connect.

    In the page that opens, under the Example, user name of the RHEL instance appears. For example: ssh -i "<Key_Pair.pem>" abc-user@<IP address>. In this example, abc-user is the user name to login to the RHEL instance using SSH.