# Tutorial needed for changing password with Putty
**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/tutorial-needed-for-changing-password-with-putty/439
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [June 9, 2010, 12:07pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/tutorial-needed-for-changing-password-with-putty/439 "2010-06-09T12:07:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.wowza.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2010, 12:07pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/tutorial-needed-for-changing-password-with-putty/439/1 "2010-06-09T12:07:53Z")
It would be great to have a tutorial on the forum for changing the default password for a Wowza EC2 instance with Putty. This is challenging for many including myself.
Derrick
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2010, 6:42pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/tutorial-needed-for-changing-password-with-putty/439/2 "2010-06-09T18:42:49Z")
If you mean change the root password, there isn’t a practical way to do it. There probably is some way, but it’s not designed for it. You use the keypair. If others need access you can send them the ppk file.
Richard
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2010, 6:58pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/tutorial-needed-for-changing-password-with-putty/439/3 "2010-06-09T18:58:53Z")
Also, it’s the AWS EC2 way of doing it, i.e., not something that Wowza has implemented.
Richard
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2010, 9:49pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/tutorial-needed-for-changing-password-with-putty/439/4 "2010-06-09T21:49:07Z")
Creating users and changing passwords is same on all linux:
useradd someuser
passwd someuser
Richard
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2010, 6:17pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/tutorial-needed-for-changing-password-with-putty/439/5 "2010-06-10T18:17:15Z")
Yes, putty is what I use. The Wowza EC2 guide has instructions:
[https://www.wowza.com/resources/WowzaMediaServerForEC2\_UsersGuide.pdf](https://www.wowza.com/resources/WowzaMediaServerForEC2_UsersGuide.pdf)
Get putty here:
[http://www.putty.org/](http://www.putty.org/)
You have to open port 22 in the EC2 security group.
Richard
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### Author:  [@Derrick\_Freeman](https://community.wowza.com/u/Derrick_Freeman)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2010, 3:37pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/tutorial-needed-for-changing-password-with-putty/439/6 "2010-06-09T15:37:34Z")
I see. I guess I’m thinking out loud in terms of an easy way to change FTP passwords on a Wowza EC2 instance. I just want to have additional way to improve security.
Thanks for the feedback.
Derrick
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### Author:  [@Derrick\_Freeman](https://community.wowza.com/u/Derrick_Freeman)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2010, 1:13pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/tutorial-needed-for-changing-password-with-putty/439/7 "2010-06-10T13:13:26Z")
Thanks Richard but I don’t know how to get to the point. I have to be able to connect to the Wowza EC2 intance with Putty over SSH. Right?
Derrick
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### Author:  [@Derrick\_Freeman](https://community.wowza.com/u/Derrick_Freeman)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2010, 1:52pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/tutorial-needed-for-changing-password-with-putty/439/8 "2010-06-10T13:52:04Z")
Hey Richard,
I know how to add port 22 to the EC2 security group and I’ve already downloaded and installed Putty. I’ve followed the instructions in the Wowza EC2 guide for connecting to the instance with Putty but can’t connect.
Derrick