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[Peter Bittner <peter.bittner@xxxxxxx>]

Oli,

actually I'm linking to the most updated post on this topic on Ask
Ubuntu. I'm seen the thread you are referring to, and I have
contributed and edit to that other post, which is now suggesting a
script that uses the android-gadget-service [2]. You may have a cached
copy still in your browser, try refreshing the page.

There's also a Gist provided, which I made to add printing out the IP
address. Alexander, the original author, has extended the script into
a "mini app" that displays a desktop icon in the Applications scope
("SSH server is ON", "SSH server is OFF"), so users that prefer to
safe time using point-and-click to using the Terminal can be happy.
Unfortunately, since the script uses sudo inside, the "GUI solution"
only works when you have no password on your phone; in the Terminal
the script asks you for the password (if needed) and you're all set.

JFYI, Peter

[2] http://askubuntu.com/questions/601910/ssh-ubuntu-touch/653595#653595


2016-02-12 12:35 GMT+01:00 Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> hi,
> Am Freitag, den 12.02.2016, 00:33 +0100 schrieb Peter Bittner:
>> I've found out today that accessing the phone via SSH from a (desktop)
>> computer is pretty easy, finally. No need for developer-grade tools
>> like adb shell, etc. [1]
>
> i see you are linking to some instructions that tell users to use the
> property system directly ... thats not guaranteed to always work which
> is why the android-gadget-service provides a dbus interface to
> enable/disable ssh (if there are ever UI tools they will also hook into
> this in the end, my initial plans were to actually add a ssh toggle on
> the developer mode page of the system-settings app when i implemented
> dev mode, but i changed to the snappy team before i could do that and
> now my time is rather rare for phone stuff)
> it would be nice if you could link to [1] instead of the "hack your
> phone using setprop" page you are linking to atm.
>
> (or perhaps robie could update his askubuntu post :) )