Connect to Linux VM Instance via SSH Key

If you using Windows, you must use a third-party tools. The following instructions show how to connect to Linux VM using PuTTY with SSH key.

• Open PuTTY on your computer.

• In the Host Name field, enter the Public IP Address of the VM that you want to connect, also the port number.

• In the category list, Expand SSH and click Auth.

• Click Browser, choose private key that you saved before. Then click Open.

• After that, click open to connect to your VM Instance.

• It will be open the login session to your VM.

• Try login with user root and enter your passphrase key.

• If there is a notification “Please login as the user “centos” rather than the user “root””, so you only can login using “centos” user.

• Please try login using “centos” user, now you can login to your VM instance.