andygeorge

These are manual instructions on enabling SSH access on your Steam Deck, adding public key authentication, and removing the need for a sudo password for the main user (deck).

This gist assumes the following:

• you have a Steam Deck
• you have a home PC with access to a Linux shell that can ssh, ssh-keygen, and ssh-copy-id
• your Steam Deck and home PC are on the same local network, with standard SSH traffic (tcp/22) allowed over that network from the PC to the Steam Deck

NOTE: @crackelf on reddit mentions that steamOS updates blow away everything other than /home, which may have the following effects:

• removing the systemd config for sshd.service, which would prevent the service from automatically starting on boot
• removing the sudoers.d config, which would reenable passwords for sudo