title: AWS Permission denied (publickey)
body: <p>I am trying to connect to my EC2 instance and getting the following error.</p>
  
  <p>Command I'm running: ssh -v -i key.pem ubuntu@[my instance address]</p>
  
  <p>I changed the permissions on the key file to 600 as I've seen in other threads, but that didn't solve the problem.</p>
  
  <p>Output I'm getting:</p>
  
  <pre><code>OpenSSH_5.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011
  debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
  debug1: /etc/ssh_config line 20: Applying options for *
  debug1: Connecting to ec2-54-247-2-128.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com [54.247.2.128] port 22.
  debug1: Connection established.
  debug1: identity file /Users/avimeir/.ssh/id_rsa type 1
  debug1: identity file /Users/avimeir/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1
  debug1: identity file /Users/avimeir/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
  debug1: identity file /Users/avimeir/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1
  debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_5.9p1 Debian-5ubuntu1
  debug1: match: OpenSSH_5.9p1 Debian-5ubuntu1 pat OpenSSH*
  debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
  debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.9
  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: Server host key: RSA ae:42:29:3d:3e:c0:a8:04:7f:19:9c:c0:52:00:a4:1e
  debug1: Host 'ec2-54-247-2-128.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com' is known and matches the RSA host key.
  debug1: Found key in /Users/avimeir/.ssh/known_hosts:4
  debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct
  debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
  debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
  debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
  debug1: Roaming not allowed by server
  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 RSA public key: /Users/avimeir/.ssh/id_rsa
  debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
  debug1: Offering RSA public key: ninja.pem
  debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
  debug1: Trying private key: /Users/avimeir/.ssh/id_dsa
  debug1: No more authentication methods to try.
  Permission denied (publickey).
  </code></pre>