Insufficient permissions with ec2-user SSH user, how to log in as wowza user?

Wowza Streaming Engine
1

Hello,

I used the ami-c2fd6dab AMI (us-east-1) to build an instance with wowza. I can’t figure out how to SSH in to the ec2 instance with the wowza user, is that even possible? I SSH in using ec2-user and the .pem file that AWS generated for me. But I can’t use that identity, or figure out how to use a password.

When I log in as ec2-user I try to start and stop the server, but get permission denied errors:

[ec2-user@ip-10-191-39-232 ~]$ service WowzaMediaServer stop
WowzaMediaServer: stopping
waiting for processes to exit^[[A
waiting for processes to exit^[[Brm: cannot remove `/var/run/WowzaMediaServer.pid': Permission denied
                                                           [  OK  ]
[ec2-user@ip-10-191-39-232 ~]$ service WowzaMediaServer start
/etc/init.d/WowzaMediaServer: line 63: kill: (1330) - No such process
WowzaMediaServer is already running (1330): stopping
rm: cannot remove `/var/run/WowzaMediaServer.pid': Permission denied
WowzaMediaServer: starting                                 [  OK  ]
touch: cannot touch `/var/run/WowzaMediaServer': Permission denied

This doesn’t look like it’s really restarting the server.

Thanks!

2

I found that I had to enable password logins for ec2 as the root user.

Login as ec2-user

Edit the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file (make sure to sudo)

set PasswordAuthentication yes

Run sudo /etc/init.d/sshd reload

3

Also note that to run as root once you have logged in with “ec2-user”, do this:

sudo su -

Richard