Massimo Caliman
by Massimo Caliman
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Installing the OpenSSH server and client applications is simple. To install the OpenSSH client application on Ubuntu systems, use this command at a terminal prompt:

sudo apt-get install openssh-client

To install the OpenSSH server application and its supporting files, use this command at a terminal prompt:

sudo apt-get install openssh-server

If the DHC assigns us a different IP each time, or it simply never occurred to us to need to know this detail about our home server, we need to retrieve it, for this purpose we use the command

$ ifconfig 

You don’t need to be root and therefore use sudo to use it we get the ip: 192.168.1.23

we can then try connecting from another machine with ssh <username>@<hostip>. in my case