Setting up SSH for incoming logins

[RobH]

I’m trying to setup my install to accept ssh logins, but I’ve had no luck. I have tried looking it up, but can’t find anything that has worked. Can someone point me in the right direction

[Strit]

Everything you need is here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/OpenSSH

Most of the time it’s enough to:

sudo pacman -S openssh
sudo systemctl enable --now sshd

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[Aragorn]

@Strit

Most of the time it’s enough to:

sudo pacman -S openssh
sudo systemctl enable --now sshd

You may want to explicitly disable remote root login, though.

[andreas85]

And you may want to

Disable password-login for ssh, and use ssh-keys instead. Because you may attract a lot of bad traffic if you use a public reachable IP.

[koshikas]

also if you run a firewall, set rules for incoming connections depending on what port you are running SSH server on

[Strit]

@Aragorn

You may want to explicitly disable remote root login, though.

@andreas85

Disable password-login for ssh, and use ssh-keys instead.

Sure. But the request was for simply setting up SSH to accept incoming connections.
What you do to secure it after that, was not covered by the question.

[RobH]

Thanks everyone