SSH key question

[Liam Proven]

On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 at 19:11, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have three machines set up on my home network with remote file copy
> and ssh interactions.  I have my desktop "base" machine set up for
> password-free remote access to the two laptops, but for some reason, I
> can't get the same access from one of the laptops back to the base.

Going back a step...

Ubuntu does not install openssh-server by default. You have to add it
manually, yourself.

So if you can ssh from your desktop to the laptops, you must have
installed it on the laptops in the past at some point.

Can you ssh from the laptops to the desktop _with_ a password?

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