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All our lab robots, as of now, have SSH set up. This is for new robots.

setting up ssh on a new robot

By default, ubuntu MATE comes with ssh installed but disabled. So there are a few steps to setup ssh to your raspberry pi.

  1. ensure that openssh-server is installed with sudo apt install openssh-server
  2. check ssh status with sudo systemctl status ssh
  3. if it is inactive, you can start it with sudo systemctl start ssh, and/or automatically start ssh on boot with sudo systemctl enable ssh
  4. go to settings -> login window and set automatic login to your robot's username.

For more information, here is a useful site that explains it more