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EC2 Password Authentication

When you stand up an AWS instance, it’s only accessible via SSH key using the default user, typically ec2-user.

Add password to ec2-user, then enable password authentication to ‘yes’ in SSH.

# Add password to ec2-user
sudo passwd ec2-user
# edit ssh config
vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config
# enable password authentication
PasswordAuthentication yes
# save file and exit

Restart SSH service.

systemctl restart sshd.service

GCE Agent Bash

This is a Bash script to restart a service.

#!/bin/bash
 
SERVICE=google_osconfig_agent
AGENT=google-osconfig-agent
 
if (( $(ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep $SERVICE | wc -l) > 0 ))
then
    echo "$AGENT service running, everything is fine"
else
    echo "$AGENT is not running"
    echo "Restarting service"
    systemctl start $AGENT
    sleep 5s
    if (( $(ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep $SERVICE | wc -l) > 0 ))
    then
      sleep 2s
      echo "$AGENT service is now running"
    fi
fi

GCE Agent Powershell

This is a Powershell script to restart a service if it’s down.

$ServiceName = 'GCEAgent'
$arrService = Get-Service -Name $ServiceName
 
if ($arrService.Status -ne 'Running')
{
 
    Start-Service $ServiceName
    write-host $arrService.status
    write-host 'Service starting'
    Start-Sleep -seconds 60
    $arrService.Refresh()
    if ($arrService.Status -eq 'Running')
    {
        Write-Host 'GCE Agent Service is now Running'
    }
 
}
else
{
    Write-Host 'GCE Agent Service is Running'
}