I found out littlechef from Grig’s post. Thanks to both Grig and to Miguel for the tool and good writeup.
I added some lines to work with the new feature of littlechef about the SSH keypair. Now I can login to my Ubuntu Amazon EC2 instances by specifying the keypair-path on the auth.conf:
[userinfo] user = ubuntu password = keypair-file = /home/cocoy/.ssh/id-rsa.pub
Hope that works well for others. The gist is shown below:
Python 2.4.4 and boto-2.0b3 import hashlib error has a fix found here
Running an older Debian AMI with RAID0 XFS EBS volumes, I patch boto-2.0b3. Hopefully, have this instance migrated using a newer Ubuntu EBS AMI and use ec2-consistent-snapshot instead.
1. Copy a patch file to a temporary file:
# vi /tmp/c_14.patch
--- boto-2.0b3/boto/ec2/connection.py Fri Nov 12 14:16:07 2010
+++ boto/ec2/connection.py Fri Nov 12 15:19:21 2010
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@
import base64
import hmac
import boto
-from hashlib import sha1 as sha
from boto.connection import AWSQueryConnection
from boto.resultset import ResultSet
from boto.ec2.image import Image, ImageAttribute
@@ -51,6 +50,11 @@
from boto.ec2.tag import Tag
from boto.exception import EC2ResponseError
+try:
+ from hashlib import sha1 as sha
+except ImportError:
+ import sha
+
#boto.set_stream_logger('ec2')
class EC2Connection(AWSQueryConnection):
2. Now we can get the source of boto:
# cd /usr/lib/python2.4/ # mv boto-2.0b3-py2.4.eggboto-2.0b3-py2.4.egg boto-2.0b3-py2.4.egg.old # easy_install -Z boto # cd boto-2.0b3-py2.4.egg/boto/ec2 # patch < /tmp/c_14.patch