WinSCP connect to Amazon AMI EC2 Instance changing user after login to "root"

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I followed instructions here carefully however I haven't get this working right. Here is what I did:

  1. Run WinSCP enter Hostname (Elastic IP of my Instance)
  2. enter username "ec2-user"
  3. enter public key file
  4. chose SCP for the protocol
  5. Under SCP/Shell settings I chose "sudo su -"
  6. Hit Login
  7. WinSCP asks me for passphrase key, Hit OK
  8. Shows up this error

Error skipping startup message. Your shell is probably incompatible with the application (BASH is recommended).

NOTE: This works on Putty

putty winscp amazon-ec2 scp sudo
6 Answers

I enabled SSH root login on Debian Linux Server: To enable SSH login for a root user on Debian Linux system you need to first configure SSH server. Open /etc/ssh/sshd_config and change the following line:

FROM:
PermitRootLogin without-password
TO:
PermitRootLogin yes

Once you made the above change restart your SSH server:

/etc/init.d/ssh restart

Source

Then i used SCP File protocol with root user name in winscp.

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