How to setup and enable SSH server in Ubuntu 12.04 desktop

Purpose – To setup and enable SSH server in Ubuntu 12.04 desktop

Pre-requisities –
Ubuntu 12.04 OS installed

By default SSH is disabled in Ubuntu desktop version. SSH is used for getting secured remote connection to the Unix machine. So in order to enable SSH so that remote SSH
connection can be established we need to carry out the below procedure

Procedure –

Step1: Install OpenSSH

sudo apt-get install openssh-server

Step2: Edit the default port for SSH connection if required (default port – 22)

sudo gedit /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Now you can use SSH client tools like putty to get the SSH connection to the Unix machine.

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