If it comes back with ‘enabled’ then SSH should automatically start up on boot.

We can use ‘systemctl is-enabled’ as shown below to check that ssh is enabled to start automatically on system boot.

We’ll of course check this though rather than just assuming! Once installed SSH should be automatically configured to start on system boot, and be already running. By default the first account that you create when you install Linux Mint should be able to become root. You can become root by running ‘sudo su’, followed by your password. Note: You must do this with root privileges, otherwise you will receive the following error message: E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)Į: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root? Within the terminal, run the following command as root to install the OpenSSH server package.

You can find the terminal icon in the task bar in a default GUI installation, as shown below. We’ll be doing this through command line, so begin by first opening up a terminal. This quick guide will show you how to install and enable SSH in Linux Mint, allowing you to remotely access the operating system over the network through SSH. By default OpenSSH server is not installed in Linux Mint.

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