<ol><li value="2">Launch your '''vm2''' machine, login to the machine, and open a shell terminal.</li><li>Use one of the commands above to check the status of your SSH server (i.e. service: ''sshd'').</li><li>Issue one of the above commands to stop of the ssh server and run a command to verify that the ssh server is no longer running.</li><li>Issue another one of the above commands to start the SSH server and to verify that it is running.</li><li>Issue a command (not listed above) to confirm that the ssh service will run upon when the vm2 server restarts.</li></ol>

*A common (if somewhat blatant way) to try to hack into a machine is to try to ssh as '''root''' and brute-force root's password.

**The root user always exists, meaning the attacker doesn't need to try guessing what user names are on your system.