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SSH is a fantastic facility for remotely managing your Mac.

This is very easy to enable, you just need to go to

System Preferences –>

Select Sharing under Internet & Wireless

Select Remote Login

Now it’s testing time,

1.Test to make sure that the SSH server is running

netstat -ta | grep ssh

you should see some entries listed as below.

2. Now that you know that the SSH server is running, you can do a quick test on your own mac by logging into the ssh server using the loop back address 127.0.0.1

ssh yourusername@127.0.0.1

As always please leave a comment below if you need any assistance with doing this on a Mac.