Raspberry Pi SSH login by creating an SSH file in boot partition (Windows 10)

One of the important aspects of using “Raspberry Pi” is that one can login to it remotely as well as locally without even connecting a screen/monitor to it. In today’s post we are going to learn about “Raspberry Pi SSH login“.

Before going further make sure you read the following articles first:

Now that you have the above mentioned posts, you are goof to go with the flow.

Step 1: First of all, if you are on windows then you have to download the “SSH client“. In our case, we are using “MobaXterm“, go to this URL and download the free version as shown below.

Go to mobaxterm website — **Go to “MobaXterm” website**

Step 2: In our case, we are using the “Portable Version” of it.

Step 3: Now after the software has been download, “extract it” and “open it“. You will be seeing something as shown in the picture below. From this screen, select the “Session” tab.

Inside mobaxterm click on session to create a new session — **Inside “MobaXterm” click on session to create a new session**

Step 4: This is important, make sure you know “How to give IP Address to Raspberry Pi“, after that you can do as shown below, just replace “192.168.137.154” with the IP Address of your Pi.

Select SSH and enter IP Address of Pi and port number for SSH — **Select “SSH” and enter “IP Address” of Pi and “Port Number for SSH”**

Step 5: After we “hit enter“, we can see from the screenshot below, the SSH login is failed.

Question: Why is it happening?

Answer: In order to login into the Raspberry Pi we have to enable the SSH on it, by creating an “SSH” file in its “BOOT Partition“.

Note: Before going to the next step, remove the memory card from your Raspberry Pi and plug it into the laptop or computer you own.

Step 6: From the picture below, you can see that there is a “BOOT Partition” and this in particular is our matter of interest.

Remove memory card from Raspberry Pi and attach it to your machine and open BOOT partition — **Remove the “Memory Card” from “Raspberry Pi” and attach it to your machine and open “BOOT partition”**

Step 7: Open the “BOOT Partition” and type the “cmd” in the directory navigation in windows as shown below, and then “hit enter“.

To open this partition inside CMD on windows do as shown above — **To open this partition inside “CMD” on windows do as shown above**

Step 8: You will be dragged into a cmd window after that, you have to create that “SSH File” as shown.

Create an empty file named as SSH using CMD inside Raspberry Pi for SSH — **Create an empty file named as SSH using “CMD” inside “Raspberry Pi” for SSH**

Step 9: Now, after doing all of the steps, if we try to “refresh” in the “MobaXterm” again, from the photo below you can confirm that now we are prompted to save the password for SSH in the client machine.