Hello - issue resolved it was due to permissions on the private key file. Once I did a chmod 600 was fine root at cloudae1:~# chmod 600 trendalyze.pem root at cloudae1:~# ls -l *.pem -rw------- 1 root root 887 Nov 1 22:07 trendalyze.pem root at cloudae1:~# ssh -i trendalyze.pem root at 130.206.126.94 Welcome to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64) * Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/ System information as of Sat Nov 1 23:12:54 CET 2014 System load: 0.08 Memory usage: 3% Processes: 75 Usage of /: 13.2% of 9.72GB Swap usage: 0% Users logged in: 0 Graph this data and manage this system at: https://landscape.canonical.com/ Last login: Wed May 21 18:29:19 2014 root at ubuntu14:~# On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 1:39 PM, <watson.dave at gmail.com> wrote: > Can you advise what is the default for root password on a new instance? > > I created one called trendalyze2 but can not set the password > > > -- Dave Watson +447741675325 (UK) +17862642749 (USA)
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