Looking for a working example of sshd_config setup fille

[Robert Moskowitz]

Looking back, it was only one desktop install.  The server installs just 
came with SSHD, but I did have to enable it.

On 8/18/25 8:29 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
> It has been a long while since I last installed Desktop Ubuntu.
> openssh_server is installed by default with Raspbian, but sshd is not normally
> enabled (but Raspbian's OS image has a trick to enable it for a first time
> "install".
>
> (openssh_server is also installed by default with MacOSX, but not enabled by
> default, but that is another can of worms...)
>
> At Mon, 18 Aug 2025 08:21:35 -0400 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
>> My desktop install for Lts24/Xcfe included sshd.  I don't know what I
>> selected for apts that resulted in that.
>>
>> i DID have to enable the server.  I also had to open up the firewall
>> accordingly.  Of course I took the hard way and changed the server port
>> which is a pain in Ubuntu which was never the case with Centos/Fedora.
>>
>> Password login then just worked.
>>
>> On 8/18/25 8:08 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
>>> At Mon, 18 Aug 2025 12:16:24 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 at 11:56, Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:
>>>>> On 18/08/2025 00:12, Jared Norris wrote:
>>>>> [snip]
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Peter,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You started by asking for a "working/secure sshd_config".
>>>>> Not me. That was the OP.
>>>>>
>>>>>> If you're not interested in securing, what about the default config
>>>>>> isn't working for you? Are you getting errors?
>>>>> The default is that you cannot ssh or scp INTO another system on the
>>>>> same network (same OS).
>>>> Even using just password authentication?
>>> I think the default desktop instalation does not include the openssh_server.
>>> I believe it needs to be separatly installed.  And might need to be
>>> explicitedly enabled (systemctl enable sshd).
>>>
>>>> Colin L.
>>>>
>>
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