Side Parachute
This page will help you get connected to the libra test net
In order to connect you will need the .pem file from the admin. Request the key and download to your home folder.
Description: Cuddle swap to side parachute to back hand cross dip: 43 sec - 55 sec.
Change the ,pem file to a octal value 400 -r-------- This will make the file read only.
Change/modify permissions on .pem file
[chad@rhhost1 ~]$ chmod 400 demo-key.pem
[chad@rhhost1 ~]$ ls -l
total 24
-r--------. 1 chad chad 1696 Aug 20 22:01 demo-key.pem
SSH command to connect
To use this key to login you need 3 things with the ssh -i command:
1.) The location of the .pem file.
/home/chad/demo-key.pem
2.)The userid of the admin account you are logging in to on the EC2 instance.
ec2-user
3.)The DNS / IP of the EC2 instance.
18.223.177.249
SSH command to connect
ssh -i "home/chad/demo-key.pem" [email protected]
You will get a question about connecting and adding your client as a known host. Type yes to be added as a known host of the EC2 instance.
Run program to connect to Libra CLI
You are now logged in on the home directory of the EC2 instance. cd into the Libra directory and run the ./scripts/cli/start_cli_testnet.sh program file to connect to the validator and start the Libra command line interface.
cd into libra directory
[[email protected]~]$ cd libra
Run CLI program command to connect to the validation node on the test net.
[ec2-user@ip-172-31-31-218 libra]$ ./scripts/cli/start_cli_testnet.sh
You should be at the CLI. Below is the link to the Libra site with the list of commands to use in the CLI.
Libra Docs link.

Updated about 3 years ago