i became over zealous and ran the command here
http://www.shellhacks.com/en/HowTo-Create-USER-with-ROOT-Privileges-in-Linux
useradd -ou 0 -g 0 john passwd john
now i try to connect the way i usually do
ssh -i yok.pem root@staging.yok.com -vv
and I’m getting
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 21: Applying options for * debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0 debug1: Connecting to staging.yok.com [23.23.77.124] port 22. debug1: Connection established. debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory debug1: identity file yok.pem type -1 debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory debug1: identity file yok.pem-cert type -1 debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0 debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_6.9
i luckily still have one connection to the server open.. i checked my ~/.ssh folder and the files all have 600 permissions.
what do i need to do here im stuck 🙁
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Answer
I changed ownership on /var/empty/sshd
chown root:root /var/empty/sshd
yayyy