AWS EC2 install of JupyterHub

I have installed JupyterHub on AWS EC2 (AMI : Linux 2) following the steps mentioned Install JupyterHub and JupyterLab from the ground up .

Completing Part 1[Setup Systemd service] and starting JupyterHub as a service, I am able to access JupyterHub. But what is the admin user I login as?

If I start jupyterhub in debug mode it gives the error :

 [W 2021-02-11 10:35:16.353 JupyterHub auth:1039] PAM Authentication failed (jhadmin@::ffff:59.96.251.212): [PAM Error 7] Authentication failure
[W 2021-02-11 10:35:16.353 JupyterHub base:764] Failed login for jhadmin
[I 2021-02-11 10:35:16.355 JupyterHub log:181] 200 POST /hub/login?next=%2Fhub%2F (@::ffff:59.96.251.212) 1957.93ms

I connect to AWS EC2 with SSH as ec2-user using my PEM file .

In TLJH install it asked for an admin user and password to be given . I couldn’t install TLJH as my OS is Linux 2 and it failed with only supported on Ubuntu.

Issue seems similar to - Invalid username or password · Issue #3049 · jupyterhub/jupyterhub · GitHub

Any pointers would be very helpful regarding PAM authentication on AWS EC2.

Thanks
Thomas

The PAMAuthenticator uses operating system accounts. You can see the docs for it here:
https://jupyterhub.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api/auth.html#pamauthenticator

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