Convert your private key using PuTTYgen Locate the private key (.pem file) for the key pair that you specified when you launched the instance. Convert the .pem file to a .ppk file for use with PuTTY.

How to Get Files Using PuTTY. Run the PuTTY SSH (Secure Shell) program when you need to establish a secure, encrypted network connection to a remote computer storing files you require.

By default, PuTTYgen display only files with the extension .ppk. to locate your .pem file, select the option to display files of all types. ! [4.png] (/images/4.png) ...

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.

Editing Files How to use PuTTY to actually edit a file depends on the operating system that the server you are connecting to uses.

However, for security, I'd like to disable password logins and only let people log in using SSH private keys. For the private key, I changed the file permissions since Terminal, unlike Putty in ...