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

Question

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 root 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 log in I got

"ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer"

How can I fix this?

Answer 1

Just rebooting your instance will solve this issue. 

EC2 Dashboard >> Instances >> Select an instance >> Click “Action” >> Instance State >> Reboot