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I am trying to login to Android Eee pad transformer from my other linux box using SSH. This are the step i followed and failed. So asking here for the correct answer.

1) Go to Android market and download install Connectbot

  • Launching ConnectBot
  • Asks ssh or telnet or local
  • Press local
  • Asks username
  • Username applied dummy
  • Connected to local Android
  • type ip addr; in the terminal shows ip address and i can ping 8.8.8.8

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2) Now i want to access to this box from outside box

  • Go to Android market and install SSDroid and SuperUser
  • Launch SSDroid
  • SSDroid says root:off, sftp://root@ipOfthisAndroidBox:2222 ready
  • From another box i try to login using ssh root@ipOfthisAndroidBox:2222 fails

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3) Launch SuperUser it tries to install something but fails

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All i get to verify am i rooted, always it shows:

$ su
su: permission denied

Follow up: How do i login after installing SSHDroid?

[sun@example ~]$ ssh [email protected] -p 2222
The authenticity of host '[94.xx.xx.xx]:2222 ([94.xx.xx.xx]:2222)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is 14:ae:33:xxxx.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added '[94.xx.xx.xx]:2222' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
SSHDroid
Use 'root' on rooted devices otherwise any username works
Default password is 'admin'
[email protected]'s password: 
/data/data/berserker.android.apps.sshdroid/home $ uname -a
Linux localhost 2.6.36.3-00004-g069b8b5 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed May 11 22:14:22 CST 2011 armv7l GNU/Linux
/data/data/berserker.android.apps.sshdroid/home $ uptime
 09:20:16 up 2 min, load average: 0.26, 0.25, 0.11

/ $ ls
EeePad_bootup_first_page.rle  acct                          default.prop                  init.ventana.rc               sys
OSD_battery_100.rle           bin                           dev                           mnt                           system
OSD_battery_25.rle            cache                         etc                           proc                          ueventd.goldfish.rc
OSD_battery_50.rle            config                        init                          root                          ueventd.rc
OSD_battery_75.rle            d                             init.goldfish.rc              sbin                          ueventd.ventana.rc
Removable                     data                          init.rc                       sdcard                        vendor

 More informations: https://gist.github.com/1357588

How do i login to my Android box from other distro's? (I am using Fedora, CentOS, FreeBSD).

ale
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  • "From other box when i try to login, i cant" isn't enough information. What exactly are you doing from the other box? Have you confirmed that you can ping the phone from the box? Have you investigated SSHDroid's settings? – Matthew Read Nov 10 '11 at 23:59
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    if you can't "su" you dont have root access to the device. sshdroid says that root is not required – Ryan Conrad Nov 11 '11 at 03:12
  • @MatthewRead 1) I installed ConnectBot. And then i did ip addr to see my ip. From my other box i can ping that IP. But i can not do ssh@androidbox. 2) Then i installed SSHDroid, it says sftp://root@thisip:2222 ready 3) once i try that from other box, i also still can not login. 4) i then using ConnectBot tried to su ...; su; su -; sudo; sudo -s; sudo -; but all says "permission denied". How do i solve this? So that i can login from outside to inside Android. – YumYumYum Nov 11 '11 at 08:56
  • @Ryan Conrad: How do i then get root access? SSDroid if says root is not required. Then why can i not login from outside using $ ssh username@androidip:port – YumYumYum Nov 11 '11 at 08:57

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SSHDroid does not need root, it's optional. Every App can bind a socket on an not privileged port (>1024).

I am pretty sure that your ssh client parameters are wrong, the port especially. AFAIK you can't add the port via : to the hostname. Try ssh root@ipofandroid -p 2222 instead.

If you need more verbose output of the ssh binary, start it with -v, -vv or -vvv. This helps to figure out problems.

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Your android box running SSHDroid, just activate it.

Your Linux Box (GUI) you can run any SSH FTP compliance (Nautilus, Filezilla, etc...) For ex. I use FileZilla ... just type

  1. on host : sftp://your.android.box.ip-address
  2. on user name : root
  3. on password : admin
  4. on port : 2222

Just select "OK" button whatever appears on your screen.

Note : you must on the same subnet mask and class for it to happen ..

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