[Starcluster] instance ssh problem...

[Justin Riley]

Also, you'll need to modify line 19 of /etc/init.d/ec2-get-credentials to:

until(new IO::Socket::INET("<ip-address>:8773")){print"Waiting for network...
\n";sleep 1}

Replace <ip-address> with the cloud controller's ip.

~Justin

On Sunday 28 March 2010 10:52:39 pm Justin Riley wrote:
> Hi Nicholas,
> 
> Sorry for the late response on this. What version of Eucalyptus are you
>  using? I just created an EMI from the starcluster iso that boots and that
>  I can ssh into without modifying the image. I'm using Eucalyptus 1.6.2.
> 
> What's weird to me is that I can ssh in, however, I cannot access
> 169.254.169.254 ip within the instance which means the ec2-get-credentials
> file can not be running successfully at startup. Something else must be
> configuring the authorized_keys file for root. This is why I wonder if
> something's up with eucalyptus on your end? Are you sure your keypair
>  setting is correct when calling euca-run-instances?
> 
> In any event, the exact file that fetches the credentials is in
> /etc/init.d/ec2-get-credentials
> 
> If you still want to try manually editing this file, you need to change
>  line 11 of this file to:
> 
> public_key_url = http://<ip-address>:8773/latest/meta-data/public-
> keys/0/openssh-key
> 
> Replace ip-address with your Eucalyptus cloud controller ip.
> 
> Let me know if that helps,
> 
> ~Justin
> 
> On Friday 26 March 2010 9:12:59 am you wrote:
> > Dear Justin,
> >
> > I've been trying to solve the ssh problem and I've read from your e-mail
> >  that:
> >
> > "The login problem is likely related to the way an "EMI" needs to fetch
> > it's credentials. For starcluster on EC2, there is a script in
> > /usr/loca/bin that uses curl to fetch the ssh pub keys from Amazon's
> > user-data server: http://169.254.169.254. This is in fact how all EC2
> > images enable ssh access (to my knowledge anyway...). So, that script
> > may need to be adjusted for eucalyptus to get ssh pubkey login to work."
> >
> > Could you please be more specific (name of the script, location, etc)
> > since I was unable to find anything in the /usr/local/bin directory of
> > the starcluster iso when I chroot into it.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Nicholas
> 
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