Commands to bypass PEM usage in newly created AWS EC2 instances.

bypass-amazon-pem.sh

# Turn on password authentication
sudo sed -i ‘s/^PasswordAuthentication.*/PasswordAuthentication yes/’ /etc/ssh/sshd_config

# Reload SSH/SSHd configuration
sudo service ssh reload

# Set a password for the ubuntu (for ubuntu instances, otherwise use the default username for that instance type)
sudo passwd ubuntu