I permanently deleted my ec2-user home directory on my rhel instance on amazon ec2
Thankfully I am still logged into my server
I don't have any backup copies of the directory or snapshots
I know I can recreate my public key from my private key and I also copied my public key to /home/ec2-user/.ssh/authorized_keys This is how I recreated my public key
ssh-keygen -y -f test.pem > test.pub
These steps aren't enough for some reason, I am still not able to ssh into my server
Am I missing any steps? Can someone guide me?
This is the error I get when I attempt to login
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@ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @
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IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!
Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)!
It is also possible that a host key has just been changed.
The fingerprint for the ECDSA key sent by the remote host is
xx.
Please contact your system administrator.
Add correct host key in /Users/xx/.ssh/known_hosts to get rid of this message.
Offending ECDSA key in /Users/xx/.ssh/known_hosts:5
ECDSA host key for ec2-xx-xx-xx-xx.compute-1.amazonaws.com has changed and you have requested strict checking.
Host key verification failed.
copy your public key to /home/ec2-user/.ssh/authorized_keys create the .ssh directory and the authorized_keys file if they do not exist
Do these commands as root
chown -R ec2-user /home/ec2-user
chmod 700 /home/ec2-user/.ssh
chmod 600 /home/ec2-user/.ssh/authorized_keys
Then try and login. Think that will probably be enough for it to work