Amazon ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer: when changing permissions

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applecrusher picture applecrusher · Aug 23, 2014 · Viewed 38.5k times · Source

I went on to my amazon ec2 successfully and I have been experimenting around. I found it annoying that I needed to always run sudo on everything so what I decided to do was to go to the route directory and change the permissions of everything to write, write, and execute.

I did so doing the following

chmod -R 777 .

I then exited out of the server.

The next time I tried to logon I got

"ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer"

How can I fix this?

Thank you

Answer

Nick picture Nick · Feb 24, 2016

My solution is probably trivial, but who knows who it could help:

I simply rebooted my EC2 instance in the browser (AWS -> EC2 Dashboard -> instances -> (select your instance) -> (click the action dropdown) -> Instance State -> Reboot

You may want to give it a minute before you try you ssh connection command again. Hope that helps someone.

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