CHEF and AWS EC2 Instances

Follow the Lynda .com tutorial on CHEF.

Provision a Chef Server using http://manage.chef.io

When it comes to provisioning a Node, create and run an EC2 instance, then you need to allow root login as well as he ec2-user, to do this take these steps

```
sudo -s (to become root)
vi /root/.ssh/authorized_keys
```
Delete the lines at the begining of the file until you get to the words ssh-rsa.
```
vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config
```
Set the variable PermitRootLogin to PermitRootLogin without-password
service sshd resart