---
title: "SSH Server"
description: "Allow logging in remotely to Hass.io using SSH."
featured: true
---
Setting up an [SSH](https://openssh.com/) server allows access to your Hass.io folders with any SSH client. It also includes a command-line tool to access the [Hass.io API](https://github.com/home-assistant/hassio/blob/dev/API.md). Try it out:
```bash
hassio help
```
This add-on will not enable you to install packages or do anything as root. This is not allowed with Hass.io.
To use this add-on, you must have a private/public key to log in. To generate them, follow the [instructions for Windows][win] and [these for other platforms][other]. It is possible to set a password for login since version 2.0 but for high security use private/public keys. You can not run both variants at the same time.
To start this add-on for the first time, you either need to include a key (enclosed in quotation marks, on a single line without line breaks) or set a password in the options section.
```json
{
"authorized_keys": [
"ssh-rsa AKDJD3839...== my-key"
],
"password": ""
}
```
The username for login over SSH is `root`. The complete login command is `ssh root@hassio.local`.
After logging in, you will find yourself in this add-on's container. The Home Assistant configuration directory is mounted on the path `/config`.
{% configuration %}
authorized_keys:
description: Your public keys for the authorized key file. Every element will be a line inside that file.
required: false
type: string
password:
description: Set a password for login. We do **NOT** recommend this variant.
required: false
type: string
{% endconfiguration %}