.pem certificate not accepted by mac Keychain

Thanks form helping Gary.

It seems that although the .pem file can be found, there is an error when I use SSH to connect, and not the expected error. I would expect..here is the error message I am getting, if that is any help at all: "~ % ssh -i "us-east-kp.pem" ec2-user@ec2-XX-XXX-XXX-XXX.compute-1.amazonaws.com Warning: Identity file us-east-kp.pem not accessible: No such file or directory. ec2-user@ec2-XX-XXX-XXX-XXX.compute-1.amazonaws.com: Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic)."

Any ideas?

Thx, TJ

Try setting the file permissions on the ssh key

chmod 600 us-east-kp.pem

See if that helps

I got a bit further today, but got a 'permission denied' error message at the last minute, see below, any thoughts? ............... "tjXXXX@MacBook ~ % chmod 400 /Users/tjxxx/.ssh/us-east-kp.pem tjXXXX@MacBook ~ ~ % ssh -i ~/.ssh/us-east-kp.pem ec2-user@ec2-xx-xxx-xxx-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com ec2-user@ec2-xx-xxx-xxx-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com: Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic)."

Sounds like you’re not in the same directory as the pem file, don’t have access or the file is called something different. If you perform an ls can you see the file? You don’t need a p12 file. Both your messages say file not found. That maybe the issue here. ls the directory and see what the file name is

Gary, thx for the feedback. See below the terminal command entries, as you can see the file is visible in downloads. FYI My keychain will still not accept the file. Below I give a chmod command to make sure I have permissions, then execute an ssh connect, but i am denied permission.

"tj downloads % ls us-east-kp1.pem us-east-kp1.pem tj downloads % chmod 400 us-east-kp1.pem tj downloads % ssh -i "us-east-kp1.pem" ec2-user@ec2-xx-xxx-x-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com

"ec2-user@ec2-xx-xxx-x-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com: Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic). tj downloads %"

Your thoughts?