SSH into your Unifi CloudKey Gen2

For anyone who struggles to get into their Ubiquity CloudKey Gen2 via SSH… There are a bunch of forum posts swarming around offering a wide variety of options. ubnt/ubnt, root/ubnt… For me, using version “UniFi OS UCK G2 Plus 3.1.9” the following combination worked:

Setup the SSH password in the CloudKey:

Now you could use the username root and the password you just setup to SSH into your CloudKey:

Jens Fritzsche

... is a technical consultant and developer at Comsol Unternehmenslösungen AG in Kronberg/Taunus. Major tasks are the architecture and implementation of complex, usually cross-system applications in and around Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.