What is the packer ssh key in .ssh/authorized_keys for on my ec2 instance?

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When I look instead ~/.ssh/authorized_keys as the root user on my ami I see something like:

no-port-forwarding,no-agent-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,command="echo 'Please login as the user \"ubuntu\" rather than the user \"root\".';echo;sleep 10;exit 142" ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAACAQC5Cfdsafdafdas_some_public_key packer_610ad8fb-0ed3-eddc-c48f-0f8553d421da
no-port-forwarding,no-agent-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,command="echo 'Please login as the user \"ubuntu\" rather than the user \"root\".';echo;sleep 10;exit 142" ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAACAQC5Cfdsafdafdas_some_public_key my-key

The second key is the key is the one I used to set up my instance so I understand that one. Is the packer key just a temporary key used to upload the instance somewhere and I can safely delete it?

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 15 '23 at 15:19

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Packer is used to create AMI and during that process it needs to ssh into the image. Normally, people who create the AMI remove them during the finalization and cleanup, seems they forgot to do that. It's safe to delete them.

answered Jan 15 '23 at 15:19

Adil Hindistan

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or maybe the people who created the AMI want to ssh into your server – user253751 Jan 15 '23 at 18:04
Please do not answer off-topic questions. Vote them to be closed instead. – Martin Prikryl Jan 15 '23 at 18:16

What is the packer ssh key in .ssh/authorized_keys for on my ec2 instance?

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