Enabling SSH

How to turn on SSH on your Raspberry Pi

Written By: Cherie Tan

Difficulty

Easy

Steps

In this guide we're going to learn how to turn on Secure Shell (SSH) on your Raspberry Pi.

SSH enables us to make a secure connection to our Raspberry Pi from the command line on our Mac, PC or Linux computer.

We will use the command line app raspi-config to enable SSH.

Click on the Terminal icon to open up a terminal window

Enter the command: sudo raspi-config

Use the arrow keys to navigate down to Interfacing Options

Select Yes from the prompt.

Navigate to by using the Down and Right Arrow Keys

Select SSH by using the down arrow keys.