Enable SSH server sshd on raspbian
- 12 Oct 2017: Post was created (diff)
In raspbian, theres a systemd service sshswitch.service that checks whether a certain file exists or not.
[Unit]
Description=Turn on SSH if /boot/ssh is present
ConditionPathExistsGlob=/boot/ssh{,.txt}
After=regenerate_ssh_host_keys.service
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/bin/sh -c "update-rc.d ssh enable && invoke-rc.d ssh start && rm -f /boot/ssh ; rm -f /boot/ssh.txt"
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
This means that to enable the sshd.service on a fresh install of raspbian you can create an empty file at /boot/ssh.
You can do this without power the Pi, by, for example:
# mkdir -p /mnt/boot
# mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/boot
# touch /mnt/boot/ssh
$ sync
# umount /mnt/boot
And the sshd should be running on the next boot.
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