Install SSH on Ubuntu

Install SSH on Ubuntu 20.4 LTS

Jonathan Homer

1 minute read

When you first install Ubuntu Client it doesn’t allow you to login remotely at first. This is likely a good step in security. So how do you set it up. The problem is we do it often enough to forget all the steps. So here is a simple 2 minute read and install blog.

First step is to run update. Always a good idea before updating. It will update its list of what is available to update. The second command installs the SSH server.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install openssh-server

That won’t take long to install. Then you need to start the server and allow the SSH traffic through its firewall.

sudo systemctl status ssh
sudo ufw allow ssh

Short and simple.

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