title: Cannot SSH into Amazon EC2 instance
body: <p>I have spent almost 24hours trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong, but I can't figure this out. Starting to feel there is something wrong with my local setup.</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>I've made sure to chmod 400 erik-keypair.pem</li>
  <li>I've stored erik-keypair.pem in my user .ssh folder, AND relocated the other id_rsa files just so they don't interfere (trying to remove any variables)</li>
  <li>Ec2 instance security has ssh enabled</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Here's the response</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ ssh -v -v -i erik-keypair.pem root@ec2-XX-XX-XX-XXX.compute-1.amazonaws.com
  OpenSSH_5.2p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8l 5 Nov 2009
  debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
  debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
  debug1: Connecting to ec2-XX-XX-XX-XXX.compute-1.amazonaws.com [XX.XX.XX.XXX] port 22.
  debug1: Connection established.
  debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type '-----BEGIN'
  debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type '-----END'
  debug1: identity file erik-keypair.pem type -1
  debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debian-5ubuntu1
  debug1: match: OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debian-5ubuntu1 pat OpenSSH*
  debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
  debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.2
  debug2: fd 3 setting O_NONBLOCK
  debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
  debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
  debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1,diffie-hellman-group1-sha1
  debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: ssh-rsa,ssh-dss
  debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,arcfour256,arcfour128,aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc,arcfour,rijndael-cbc@lysator.liu.se
  debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,arcfour256,arcfour128,aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc,arcfour,rijndael-cbc@lysator.liu.se
  debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: hmac-md5,hmac-sha1,umac-64@openssh.com,hmac-ripemd160,hmac-ripemd160@openssh.com,hmac-sha1-96,hmac-md5-96
  debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: hmac-md5,hmac-sha1,umac-64@openssh.com,hmac-ripemd160,hmac-ripemd160@openssh.com,hmac-sha1-96,hmac-md5-96
  debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: none,zlib@openssh.com,zlib
  debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: none,zlib@openssh.com,zlib
  debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: 
  debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: 
  debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: first_kex_follows 0 
  debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: reserved 0 
  debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1,diffie-hellman-group1-sha1
  debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: ssh-rsa,ssh-dss
  debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,arcfour128,arcfour256,arcfour,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc,rijndael-cbc@lysator.liu.se,aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr
  debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,arcfour128,arcfour256,arcfour,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc,rijndael-cbc@lysator.liu.se,aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr
  debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: hmac-md5,hmac-sha1,umac-64@openssh.com,hmac-ripemd160,hmac-ripemd160@openssh.com,hmac-sha1-96,hmac-md5-96
  debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: hmac-md5,hmac-sha1,umac-64@openssh.com,hmac-ripemd160,hmac-ripemd160@openssh.com,hmac-sha1-96,hmac-md5-96
  debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: none,zlib@openssh.com
  debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: none,zlib@openssh.com
  debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: 
  debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: 
  debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: first_kex_follows 0 
  debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: reserved 0 
  debug2: mac_setup: found hmac-md5
  debug1: kex: server-&gt;client aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none
  debug2: mac_setup: found hmac-md5
  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
  debug2: dh_gen_key: priv key bits set: 124/256
  debug2: bits set: 502/1024
  debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent
  debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY
  debug1: Host 'ec2-XX-XX-XX-XXX.compute-1.amazonaws.com' is known and matches the RSA host key.
  debug1: Found key in /Users/erik/.ssh/known_hosts:1
  debug2: bits set: 523/1024
  debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct
  debug2: kex_derive_keys
  debug2: set_newkeys: mode 1
  debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
  debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
  debug2: set_newkeys: mode 0
  debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
  debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
  debug2: service_accept: ssh-userauth
  debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
  debug2: key: erik-keypair.pem (0x0)
  debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
  debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
  debug1: Trying private key: erik-keypair.pem
  debug1: read PEM private key done: type RSA
  debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply
  debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
  debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method
  debug1: No more authentication methods to try.
  Permission denied (publickey).
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Does anyone spot what I'm doing wrong?</p>