Comments (27)

1. July 9, 2008
   ernest

   thanks for your handy ‘how-to’ =).

2. November 25, 2008
   Kendall Brown

   Could you give us a noobs a little more information on setting up an SSH server on Ubuntu 8.10? I appreciate the tutorial but I have no idea what to do next. How do I create a key? If I generated a SSH key with Seahorse can you tell me how to get the SSH server to use it? How do I create a users list that can access the SSH server?

3. March 16, 2009
   pete

   Is that it?

4. April 16, 2009
   Markus

   Hi, I did that but get the following error:
   Reading package lists…done
   Building dependency tree
   Reading state information… Done
   Package ssh s not available, but is referred to by another package.
   This may mean that the package is missing, has been ovsoleted, or is only available from another source
   However the following packages replace it: openssh -client ssh-askpass-gnome
   E: Package ssh has no installation candidate

   I just installed ubuntu 8.10

5. April 26, 2009
   Troy

   Hello Markus,

   ssh’s name has been changed to openssh. Simply type: sudo apt-get install openssh

6. May 13, 2009
   John

   Works for Ubuntu 9.04, but I’m like pete. Is that it?

7. June 7, 2009
   pavsid

   I didn’t believe it could be that simple, after spending all night trying to make a connection, failing, creating TLS certificates etc, failing, and then suddenly realising that i hadn’t forwarded port 22 on my router – understood that it really is that simple!

   Well, almost. Here’s what you really need to do:
   1) completely remove any ftp software you already have installed
   2) forward port 22 on ur router
   3) install OpenSSH – sudo apt-get install openssh-server
   ** optional (but recommended):-
   4) create a new user on your computer (server) and set their home directory & password
   5) connect to the server with SFTP (FileZilla) with the username and password you created and ensure that you have select SFTP option

   yes, its a 5 minute job….not 3 hours like i spent

8. July 9, 2009
   rantom user

   Hi Recently i friend of mine installed the brand new version of ubuntu on her desktop. I installed openssh-client and server on this machine, and then i did the loop test (ssh localhost) to see if it works, yes it passed the test. However, when i tried to ssh to another machine it didn’t work. Afterwards i decided to apply the same ssh_config settings that i have in my laptop ubuntu installation where i know that ssh is working. Even this trick didn’t fix the problem.
   I am totally confused.
   ANY IDEAS?
   Thanks beforehand.

9. August 5, 2009
   yo

   rantom user:

   sudo apt-get install openssh-client

10. September 13, 2009
    worldsayshi

    I’ve just set up a ssh server at home, behind a router. Within the local network it works great. But I’m unsure what is needed to make it work from outside. I think I’ve managed to forward the port through the router although I’m not sure how to test that I made it right. Haven’t been able to connect from the outside yet though. Do I need to adress the specific port?

    That is:

    ssh [myglobalip]:22

    Is there anything else to think about when connecting through a router?

    /thanks

11. November 7, 2009
    Matthew Miller

    Better than just blindly accepting the key as good, verify the fingerprint. Run:

    sudo ssh-keygen -l -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub

    on the server (in this case, localhost). In this example, it’s not so important, but it’s good to ask for this from the sysadmin of remote systems you might connect to (or to provide it to your own users). That way, you know the initial connection isn’t subject to a man-in-the-middle attack.

12. March 31, 2010
    Ajay Vijayan

    Do i have to make any changes in the configuration file of ssh server or only installing the package will be sufficient and is there any method for the encryption of the passwords

13. March 31, 2010
    Ajay Vijayan

    i mean what type of encryption is done in ssh

14. April 3, 2010
    Sammaye

    You don’t need to make any chages it should just work straight from apt-get. ssh uses its own encryption all built in :).

15. April 3, 2010
    Barron

    I can`t install ssh in my server. i try to use that command in terminat with: sudo apt-get install ssh and it seems like it doesent work. Can somebody help me?
    E: Package ssh has no installation candidate

    I have tried all comands from here ans seems like all commands are wrong.

16. June 10, 2010
    Tyler

    barron, it’s name changed to openssh. If you run sudo apt-get install openssh it should work.

17. August 15, 2010
    ant

    i’d say ;

    sudo apt-get install openssh-server

    is more appr. for this case. push tab to see the possible options anyway

18. August 16, 2010
    Dave

    The other thing to think about while considering Matthew Miller’s good point about key verification is avoiding denial-of-service attacks, portscanning and the like. Rather than using the standard port, particularly if you are opening a port to the internet, go into

    /etc/ssh/sshd_config

    and change the port then restart the service using

    sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart

    to restart the service listening on your non-standard port. Of course if others SSH into your server you will need to publish the port number somehow, but it prevents the script kiddies from smashing you with bruteforce attacks.

    My2cFWIW.

19. February 15, 2011
    Mietek

    This simply does not work.

    ~$ sudo apt-get install openssh-server openssh-client
    Reading package lists… Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information… Done
    Package openssh-server is not available, but is referred to by another package.
    This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
    is only available from another source

    E: Package ‘openssh-server’ has no installation candidate

20. February 17, 2011
    David89111

    quick and correct. Nice one.

    Thanks!

21. March 5, 2011
    Joker

    For those who are a little bit confused:
    to access everything on the server computer from another computer, go to:
    Places > Connect to Server
    choose ssh
    use local address and leave other fields blank

    that’s it
    easy as pie

22. May 2, 2011
    Ted

    1. sudo apt-get install openssh-client openssh-server
    Successful.
    2. ted@rigel:/etc/ssh$ ssh ted@localhost
    ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

    Any pointers?

23. May 3, 2011
    Mike the Tech

    If you get odd package not available messages, try “sudo apt-get update” first, then “sudo apt-get install ssh”.

24. May 26, 2011
    me

    If your getting the “~$ sudo apt-get install openssh-server openssh-client
    Reading package lists… Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information… Done
    Package openssh-server is not available, but is referred to by another package.
    This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
    is only available from another source

    E: Package ‘openssh-server’ has no installation candidate”

    problem, you could try updating your sources.list. Im not sure about it on Ubuntu, but on debian and other distros, you have to build your own list with repos that will fetch the files.

25. July 22, 2011
    Elias Ibero

    I have found this on the Ubuntu forum and it did work for me fine:
    Problem installing openssh-server

    try this

    Code:
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install openssh-server

26. September 22, 2011
    Ted

    Id say that u will have to write $~ ssh localhost or $~ ssh [user]@[local/global ip]
    :)

27. October 4, 2011
    robel sharma

    First you have to go in root user like

    ~$ sudo su
    Password:*******

    Then update by
    ~$ sudo apt-get update

    and install
    ~$ sudo apt-get install openssh-server
    Or
    ~$ sudo apt-get install ssh

    that’s work in my case in hadoop.Try it out.