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As a UNIX newbie and owner of an Android device, could you give an example of typical use cases of SSH on a phone? I may give it a go myself. EDIT: I just notic
by martijn_himself 13y ago
As a UNIX newbie and owner of an Android device, could you give an example of typical use cases of SSH on a phone? I may give it a go myself. EDIT: I just noticed this is a SSH client rather than server right? Can you really do much on such a cramped keyboard or is it for use in emergency situations?
- networked 13y agoI use SSH to check up on the status of and control the services running on my home and work servers (I make good use of the aforementioned transparent hopping feature for the latter). To easier manage things over SSH on devices with a limited input rate I've set up one-letter bash aliases and scripted dialog(1) menus, e.g., to look at temperature sensor data or to change the running state of the motion detection camera system I've set up at home (using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_%28surveillance_software%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_%28surveillance_softwar...). A little while ago when I used a QWERTY S60v3 device from Nokia I would routinely issue more complex commands from my phone and have even written a few short shell scripts but I'd rather not do that on a touchscreen. Edit: As for running an SSH server on a phone, I run one on a Palm Pre Plus that I've set up for use exclusively as a portable wireless flash drive / file server with a Debian chroot. It's also convenient to have on a Pre because much of UI in webOS consists of regular HTML and JavaScript files you can edit with vim/nano to do things like adding extra settings for how long the phone stays running when not given user input (you want to be able to set this value high on a server).
- martijn_himself 13y agoGreat summary- thank you I will give it a go.