title: Can't ssh to AWS EC2: Identity file not accessible
body: <p>I'm unable to ssh to my EC2 server and am getting the error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>ssh -i /Users/Skeniver/Keepass/skeniver.pem ubuntu@xx.xxx.xx.xxx
  
  Identity file /Users/Skeniver/Keepass/skeniver.pem not accessible: No such file or directory
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The file is definitely in the directory and I've chmod'd the directory to 755 and the file to 600:</p>
  
  <pre><code>drwxr-xr-x  14 Skeniver  staff    476 28 Nov  2012 Keepass
  -rw-------  1 Skeniver  staff    1696  5 Oct  2012 skeniverkey.pem
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm pretty sure it's a permissions problem, but can't figure out why...</p>
  
  <p>Here is the output of the ssh command using -v, in case it's of any use:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Warning: Identity file /Users/Skeniver/Keepass/skeniver.pem not accessible: No such file or directory.
  OpenSSH_5.2p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011
  debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
  debug1: Connecting to xx.xxx.xx.xxx [xx.xxx.xx.xxx] port 22.
  debug1: Connection established.
  debug1: identity file /Users/Skeniver/.ssh/identity type -1
  debug1: identity file /Users/Skeniver/.ssh/id_rsa type 1
  debug1: identity file /Users/Skeniver/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
  debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_5.9p1 Debian-5ubuntu1.1
  debug1: match: OpenSSH_5.9p1 Debian-5ubuntu1.1 pat OpenSSH*
  debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
  debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.2
  debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
  debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
  debug1: kex: server-&gt;client aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none
  debug1: kex: client-&gt;server aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none
  debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(1024&lt;1024&lt;8192) sent
  debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP
  debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent
  debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY
  debug1: Host 'xx.xxx.xx.xxx' is known and matches the RSA host key.
  debug1: Found key in /Users/Skeniver/.ssh/known_hosts:8
  debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct
  debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
  debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
  debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
  debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
  debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
  debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
  debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
  debug1: Offering public key: /Users/Skeniver/.ssh/id_rsa
  debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
  debug1: Trying private key: /Users/Skeniver/.ssh/identity
  debug1: Trying private key: /Users/Skeniver/.ssh/id_dsa
  debug1: No more authentication methods to try.
  Permission denied (publickey).
  </code></pre>