# ssh access to wowza EC2 instance

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/ssh-access-to-wowza-ec2-instance/35841>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [December 16, 2010, 11:40am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/ssh-access-to-wowza-ec2-instance/35841 "2010-12-16T11:40:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bharat\_Ruparel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e4f/32.png) [@Bharat\_Ruparel](https://community.wowza.com/u/Bharat_Ruparel)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 11:40am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/ssh-access-to-wowza-ec2-instance/35841/1 "2010-12-16T11:40:47Z")

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The documentation describes how to set up the puttygen.exe for ssh telenet access to the wowza insance running on EC2. I am using Mac OSX, so I want to directly ssh into my wowza instance. I have generated the private key using elastic fox keygen.

My question is: how do I configure my terminal to be able to ssh into my instance of wowza EC2 server. I am quite familiar with ssh access. I am assuming if I use keyed access then I don’t need username password authentication since it uses public/private keys right? So when I used Elastic Fox to generate key pairs, I got my private key and Elastic Fox must have copied my public key on to my instance of the server?

So I guess my question boils down to “how should I configure my terminal to pick up the private key generated by ElasticFox” ?

Thanks for your time.

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