[NCLUG] SSH on Android

[James DeWitt]

Chad,

ConnectBot is a good and free SSH client for Android.

AndFTP seems likewise to be a good FTP/SFTP/FTPS client, but I have only used it a little.  Have you tried this one?  

Some apps seem to not be able or willing to accept self-signed certificates, but others can.  Not sure if AndFTP does, but it is a defect, in my opinion.

As to command line and bundling issues, if you have root on your phone, you may be able to port some things to it. However, since it has very limited memory and native libraries, it is probably not worth it.

Hope this helps,
JD

JD

"Chad Perrin" <perrin at apotheon.com> wrote:

>So . . . I have an Android smartphone (a Cliq, specifically).  In
>general, I like it.  I find myself annoyingly limited in my options for
>connecting to another system via the SSH protocol, though.
>
>Is there an easy way that anyone on the list knows to get a basic command
>line SSH suite working on Android -- with both SSH and SFTP capability?
>There are a couple of tools available in the Android Market, of course,
>but for some reason:
>
>1. A secure shell tool is just a secure shell tool with no SFTP
>capability.
>
>2. SFTP is apparently available only as one of several connection methods
>for FTP tools.
>
>3. The FTP tools won't actually connect using SFTP (they give
>authentication errors).
>
>I've only just started looking into this (I haven't had the smartphone
>long).  I have tried some Google searching for ideas, for figuring out
>what's wrong with the FTP application, et cetera.  I've even found a
>couple of forum discussions started by people who had the same problem
>with some of those FTP tools (though nobody ever said anything helpful in
>response).  I'll keep searching, but I figured I'd see if anyone on this
>list might give me a hint how to shorten the search for a solution.
>
>-- 
>Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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