How to install ssh server on Lubuntu 17.10

You can install ssh server on your computer so that you can access it remotely with other device as long as they are on the same network. In this article i will show you how to install ssh server and also how to use it on lubuntu 17.10 artful.

To make ssh connection you need a server that running ssh service and a client which will be your computer or device that has ssh client on it. By default lubuntu already comes with ssh client command line tool.

So if you wish your computer to run ssh service then you need to install ssh server, and the best one is open ssh server which available on lubuntu official repository.

How to install SSH server on Lubuntu 17.10

• open command line/terminal on lubuntu
• run update command

sudo apt-get update

• install open ssh server

sudo apt-get install openssh-server

• check the status of open ssh server, make sure it's active/running

sudo service ssh status

• done!

How to start, stop, restart SSH server

start ssh server

sudo service ssh start

stop ssh server

sudo service ssh stop

restart ssh server

sudo service ssh restart

check status ssh server

sudo service ssh status

How to connect to SSH server

To connect to ssh server all you need is a ssh client which already comes with lubuntu installation. You will also need username and password, the username and password comes from user that exist on the ssh server.

ssh [username]@[hostname/ip address]

Example:

ssh samantha@localhost

ssh james@192.168.0.22