Set a password for the root user on Lighthouse via SSH

If you are logged into Lighthouse via SSH keys, you will need to set a root password to login via GUI. Use the ogpasswd utility to do this.

ogpasswd -u root -p MySecretPassword

When done, the EC2 Linux instance can be shut down and removed or saved for creating future instances.

 

Note: Currently AWS support is limited to:

All standard Lighthouse operations

Running on the AWS platform

Providing aws-cli tools for interaction with AWS

Loading the provided SSH key for the root user

Running custom scripts on startup (see above)

Providing a root password via userdata (see above)

At this time we do not support:

Using AWS's database services

Using AWS's redis services

Using any of AWS's scalability functionality

Note: If you want to deploy Lighthouse across different AWS regions an AMI will be needed in each region. Amazon supports copying AMIs between regions and offers a walkthrough of the necessary steps to do this.

Click here to read the instructions on Amazon’s website.