SSH : Service settings2026/04/09

	This configures an SSH service that allows shell access from a remote computer.
[1]	If you log in to the Proxmox VE management console as an administrator user, select your hostname in the left pane, and then select [System] in the right pane, you will see that the SSH service [sshd] is running by default.

[2]

Local users have SSH access.
The administrator user account [root] also has SSH access via password authentication.

However, unless your Proxmox server is on a small, closed local network, SSH login using [root] password authentication is not advisable from a security standpoint.
Therefore, it's best to use key-pair authentication and disable password authentication, as described here.

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