In this chapter, we will get to know the tricks of administrating the Banana Pi. Administration can be a difficult task as a lot of factors must be considered. However, we will go along this journey step by step. We will begin this chapter by connecting to the Banana Pi via a remote shell. This way, you will be able to administrate the Banana Pi from another computer on your local network. You will see that it will become a very convenient way of working with the device. You will not have to attach a keyboard and display directly to the Banana Pi anymore. Fortunately, the very basic service (that is the OpenSSH server) is configured on almost all Linux-based distributions for the Banana Pi by default. Therefore, you will only need to install and configure an SSH client onto your computer to connect to your Banana Pi remotely.