How to Install OpenSSH Server on Ubuntu 16.04 | 18.04 | 20.04 LTS

OpenSSH is a suite of secure systems administration utilities dependent on the Secure Shell (SSH) convention, which gives a protected channel over an unbound system in a customer server engineering, OpenSSH began as a fork of the free SSH program created by Tatu Ylönen; later forms of Ylönen’s SSH were exclusive programming offered by SSH Communications Security, OpenSSH was first discharged in 1999, and is at present evolved as a feature of the OpenBSD working framework.

In this post, We will Install OpenSSH Server on Ubuntu 16.04 | 18.04 | 20.04

Step 1: Update System

You need to update the current ubuntu repository and use the following command.

$ sudo apt-get update 

Step 2: Install Open SSH Server

To install openssh server, You need to use the given command.

$ sudo apt-get install openssh-server -y

Step 3: Get Service Status 

By default, SSH server is on running state and enable on boot the ssh service, To verify that you need to use the following command for that.

$ sudo systemctl status sshd 

How to Install OpenSSH Server on Ubuntu 16.04 | 18.04 | 20.04 LTS

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