How to install, start and connect to SSH Server on Fedora Linux

SSH server may not be installed by default on your Fedora Linux box. Therefore, any attempt to connect to your box via ssh my result in:

ssh: connect to host HOST/IP port 22: Connection refused

Error message. In order to be able to connect to our FEDORA linux box using ssh we first need to install it using yum command.

# yum install openssh-server

Once we have our SSH server installed we need to start it up:

# systemctl start sshd

If successfull, this should open up port 22.

# netstat -ant | grep 22
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN 
tcp6       0      0 :::22                   :::*                    LISTEN

All is ready to make your fisrt ssh connection:

$ ssh myserver