title: Amazon EC2 Root login
body: <p>I'm trying to enable root login for my EC2 instances. I know I could use <code>su</code> or <code>sudo</code>, but I need to be able to ssh'ing into my server as root because the Jenkins EC2-Plugin requires root access.</p>
  
  <p>I already found some solutions during my web search but they all didn't work:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><code>PermitRootLogin</code> in <code>/etc/ssh/sshd_config</code></li>
  <li>Copy <code>authorized_keys</code> to root's <code>.ssh</code>-Folder</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>This link seemed to be quite useful but also didn't work: <a href="http://teknika.tumblr.com/post/5416465911/jenkins-ec2" rel="noreferrer">http://teknika.tumblr.com/post/5416465911/jenkins-ec2</a></p>