The router is Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH2, flashed with DD-WRT v24-sp2 build 21676.

The SSH server settings is under Tab Services, Services.

dd-wrt-sshd-1

The section is called Secure Shell

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Select Enable for SSHd, keep the others as is. Then click Save and Apply Settings.

After that, you can use Putty to ssh to router. Let us have a look at my router.

dd-wrt-ssh-box

The login user name is root, not the one for web ui.

Password is the one to sign in web ui.

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