Installing the SSH Daemon on Arch Linux 2017.03.01
I tried to follow the instructions on https://wiki.archlinux.org/ index.php/Secure_Shell but they weren't so clear for me, since this was going into my lab, I just needed some "quick and dirty" instructions. NOTE: Allowing root to login directly is a security risk. In this case, since it's my lab, I'm not concerned, but if this were in production, I would strongly advise that you do not allow root to login directly as this increases the attack surface of the machine. 1) Use the "ip addr" command to locate your local IP # ip addr 2) Use the "pacman" package manager to install OpenSSH # pacman -S openssh 3) Generate the SSH keys: # ssh-keygen -N "" -t rsa -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key # ssh-keygen -N "" dsa -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key # ssh-keygen -N "" -t dsa -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key # ssh-keygen -N "" -t ecdsa -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key ...