Login Amazon EC2 as root using authorization keys

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Follow the steps below.

1. Login to your EC2
2. Type “sudo su”
3. use nano or vim to open the file /root/.ssh/authorized_keys
4. comment or remove the line below

#no-port-forwarding,no-agent-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,command=”echo ‘Please login as the user \”centos\” rather than the user \”root\”.’;echo;sleep 10"

1. restart openssh service by “service sshd restart”
2. Logout from ssh
3. ReLogin again using root