Girish
Votes: 0Posted On: Oct 25, 2017 11:59:20
SSH or Secure Shell is a program used to connect your system to a remote host. It is a secure way of connecting to a remote host with different levels of authentication. It can also be used to transfer files from local to remote host and vice versa. Many file transfer programs such as "scp" use the services of ssh.
Enable the SSH service
Once, the SSH daemon is installed, you have to start the service for the SSH service to start working. You can do so by using either of the following commands.
sudo /etc/init.d/ssh start
sudo service ssh start
Disable the SSH service
If in any case, you want to disable the service, you can do so by the following commands.
sudo /etc/init.d/ssh stop
sudo service ssh stop
Restart the SSH service
SSH service can be restarted by the following commands.
sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart
sudo service ssh restart