How to Setup Password Authentication For AWS ec2 Instances

Set the password for root user

1. Login to SSH using  .pem file
2. Change user as root user.

   sudo su

3. Go to ssh config file

   vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config

4. Change the following var in ssh config

   PasswordAuthentication yes
   PermitRootLogin yes

5. Change the Root password

   passwd root

   
   It will prompt the password, you need to provide the password two time.
6. ReStart the server

   service sshd restart

Now, you can login to EC2 instance with password .

Note: we have set the password for root user not for ec2-user