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AS the title mentions. I was dumb enough to change the permissions of home/ec2-user recursively to 777 after which I could not log in. I then detached the volume and then attached it to another instance and changed the permission to 700 recursively of that folder. Now when I try to connect to it using the following command I get the error

     ssh -v -i  ~/Amazon-fooDev/fooDev.pem ec2-user@ec2-34-212-108-144.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

OpenSSH_7.8p1, LibreSSL 2.7.3

debug1: Reading configuration data /Users/admin/.ssh/config

debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config

debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 48: Applying options for *

debug1: Connecting to ec2-34-212-108-144.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com port 22.

debug1: Connection established.

debug1: identity file /Users/admin/Amazon-fooDev/fooDev.pem type -1

debug1: identity file /Users/admin/Amazon-fooDev/fooDev.pem-cert type -1

debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_7.8

debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_7.4

debug1: match: OpenSSH_7.4 pat OpenSSH_7.0*,OpenSSH_7.1*,OpenSSH_7.2*,OpenSSH_7.3*,OpenSSH_7.4*,OpenSSH_7.5*,OpenSSH_7.6*,OpenSSH_7.7* compat 0x04000002

debug1: Authenticating to ec2-34-212-108-144.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:22 as 'ec2-user'

debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent

debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received

debug1: kex: algorithm: curve25519-sha256

debug1: kex: host key algorithm: ecdsa-sha2-nistp256

debug1: kex: server->client cipher: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com MAC: <implicit> compression: none

debug1: kex: client->server cipher: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com MAC: <implicit> compression: none

debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY

debug1: Server host key: ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 SHA256:XJWnn7TLa5feJVY7kAOUJQGmWm8J3UNQ/MM+uQZa+Sk

debug1: Host 'ec2-34-212-108-144.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com' is known and matches the ECDSA host key.

debug1: Found key in /Users/admin/.ssh/known_hosts:1

debug1: rekey after 134217728 blocks

debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent

debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS

debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received

debug1: rekey after 134217728 blocks

debug1: SSH2_MSG_EXT_INFO received

debug1: kex_input_ext_info: server-sig-algs=<rsa-sha2-256,rsa-sha2-512>

debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received

debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey

debug1: Next authentication method: publickey

debug1: Trying private key: /Users/admin/Amazon-fooDev/fooDev.pem

debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey

debug1: No more authentication methods to try.

ec2-user@ec2-34-212-108-144.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com: Permission denied (publickey).

Any suggestions on what I could do to fix this problem. I wasted an entire day trying to connect to that instance and get back to the state it was originally in. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Is 700 permission for home/ec2-user correct ? or should i change it to something else ? Do u think I might be looking in the wrong direction ?

Here are a list of some of the latest permissions

[root@ip-172-31-42-113 vol1]# chmod 600 home/ec2-user/.ssh/authorized_keys

[root@ip-172-31-42-113 vol1]# ls -l

total 120

dr-xr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Nov 17 09:05 bin

dr-xr-xr-x  4 root root  4096 Nov 17 09:05 boot

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Feb 28  2014 cgroup

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Aug 11 01:27 dev

drwxr-xr-x 83 root root  4096 Nov 27 01:51 etc

drwx------  3 root root  4096 Nov 17 05:10 home

dr-xr-xr-x  7 root root  4096 Nov 17 08:48 lib

dr-xr-xr-x 10 root root 12288 Nov 17 09:05 lib64

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Aug 11 01:26 local

drwx------  2 root root 16384 Aug 11 01:26 lost+found

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Jan  6  2012 media

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Jan  6  2012 mnt

drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  4096 Aug 11 01:26 opt

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Aug 11 01:26 proc

dr-xr-x---  5 root root  4096 Nov 26 12:00 root

drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  4096 Nov 17 05:10 run

dr-xr-xr-x  2 root root 12288 Nov 17 09:05 sbin

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Jan  6  2012 selinux

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Jan  6  2012 srv

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Aug 11 01:26 sys

drwxrwxrwt  3 root root  4096 Nov 27 03:15 tmp

drwxr-xr-x 16 root root  4096 Nov 22 23:12 usr

drwxr-xr-x 20 root root  4096 Nov 17 08:31 var

[root@ip-172-31-42-113 vol1]# cd  home/ec2-user/.ssh/

[root@ip-172-31-42-113 .ssh]# ls -l

total 4

-rw------- 1 ec2-user ec2-user 391 Nov 27 01:51 authorized_keys

SSH parameter -i expects that the next parameter is the key name.

In your case -iv tells ssh to read the key from file v - not quite what you wanted :) The flow-on effect is that the next parameter (the key name) is deemed to be the host name, which it obviously can't resolve.

This will work:

ssh -v -i ~/Amazon-Permission/FooDev.pem ec2-user@ec2-...

Update after your update :)

If you did recursive chmod 700 it changed the authorized_keys mode too.
Mount the volume back to your little "helper" instance and do:

chmod 600 home/ec2-user/.ssh/authorized_keys

Update 2

Your home/ must be mode 755 and not 700. Otherwise ssh can't check open the file as ec2-user.

chmod 755 home

chmod 700 home/ec2-user home/ec2-user/.ssh

chmod 600 home/ec2-user/.ssh/authorized_keys

Hope that helps :)

First, fix the syntax error. You say you used:

ssh -iv ~/Amazon-Permission/FooDev.pem ec2-user@ec2-34-212-108-144.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

This tries to load an ssh private key named v, which is not what you want. You want the ssh private key named ~/Amazon-Permission/FooDev.pem. Remove the stray v that got in there somehow.