Nick Hardiman shows you how to set up a secure connection to an Amazon EC2 machine using PuTTY and Pageant to handle your private key.

You can avoid command line tedium and simplify access to a fleet of servers by creating a flexible configuration file for your SSH client. Here’s how.

Replace the public key in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on your existing instance so the attacker can no longer unlock it with their private key. Here’s a summary of how to replace the keys mentioned ...