Linux – EC2 startup script

How can I automatically start a program on Amazon's EC2 Windows 2008 web servers?

Just run it as a service. Follow this tutorial:

http://www.hosting.com/support/vps/windows/service/

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Simple answer, to give you friends SSH access to the server use:

useradd -c "Friendly Version User Name" -s /bin/bash -m username

• -c is just a comment but shows up in you passwd file and makes it a little easier to read
• -s defines the shell. Bash is probably your default but for good measure I add it to my command
• -m tells it to make the home directory for the user
• username is the log in your friends will use

Make sure to get their SSH and add them to the authorized_keys file