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Logging into your new instance "in the cloud" (Windows version)
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Download Putty and Puttygen from here: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

Generate a ppk file from your pem file
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(You only need to do this once!)

Open puttygen; select "Load".

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Find and load your '.pem' file; it's probably in your Downloads
folder.  Note, you have to select 'All files' on the bottom.

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Load it.

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Now, "save private key".  Put it somewhere easy to find.

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Logging into your EC2 instance with Putty
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Open up putty, and enter your hostname into the Host Name box.

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Now, go find the 'SSH' section and enter your ppk file (generated above
by puttygen).  Then select 'Open'.

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Log in as "ubuntu".

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Declare victory!

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Here, you're logging in as user 'ubuntu' to the machine
'ec2-174-129-122-189.compute-1.amazonaws.com' using the authentication
key located in 'amazon.pem' on your Desktop.

You should now see a text line that starts with something like
``ubuntu@ip-10-235-34-223:~$``.  You're in!  Now type::

   sudo bash
   cd /root

to switch into superuser mode (see: http://xkcd.com/149/) and go to your
home directory.

This is where the rest of the tutorials will start!

If you have Dropbox, you should now visit :doc:`installing-dropbox`.

You might also want to read about :doc:`terminating-your-instance`.

To log out, type::

   exit
   logout

or just close the window.