SSH Terminal App

**kizer** · 10-31-2008, 01:11 PM

Is there a SSH/Telnet Terminal app?

I use my SK to access a home server Linux based to well run things and I was wondering if there is an app or an app to be had that will support SSH simply because I do not have Telnet enabled for security reasons.

**kizer** · 10-31-2008, 01:14 PM

Man I need to use the search before I ask from now on.

http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f...ote-tools-745/

**divestoclimb** · 10-31-2008, 01:54 PM

It's called ConnectBot and it's in the Market. I used it yesterday to edit a web page for a client. How cool is it to be able to run vim on your cell phone??

**kaziko** · 11-01-2008, 05:26 AM

Originally Posted by divestoclimb

It's called ConnectBot and it's in the Market. I used it yesterday to edit a web page for a client. How cool is it to be able to run vim on your cell phone??

how did you edit the webpage? i tried to gedit through connectbot but then again im a linux noob

**PAO1908** · 11-01-2008, 06:17 AM

Originally Posted by divestoclimb

It's called ConnectBot and it's in the Market. I used it yesterday to edit a web page for a client. How cool is it to be able to run vim on your cell phone??

very very nice application, didnt find it on the market, downloaded it manually from the web. Really cool. Now I can access my server to restart services if they hang

**f4phantomii** · 11-01-2008, 07:07 AM

Originally Posted by kaziko

how did you edit the webpage? i tried to gedit through connectbot but then again im a linux noob

He used the visual editor (vi).

The learning curve for vi is pretty steep, but once you have it, you'll hardly ever use anything else for quick editing changes. Numerous tutorials exist on the web, including a few "cheat sheet" files you can print out for quick reference.

It's been around for 30 years, and there's a reason it's still the standard unix editor.

**MrGibbage** · 11-01-2008, 07:10 AM

Originally Posted by kaziko

how did you edit the webpage? i tried to gedit through connectbot but then again im a linux noob

gedit is a graphic editor for x windows. It won't work in ssh over your phone. You need to learn command line utilities in order to use ssh. I use an editor called "joe", but a lot of people swear by "vi" and "vim". Finally, "pico" is another popular text based editor. They are all probably installed on your system already. You will find all the help on these programs you could ever ask for if you google for "linux vi", or "linux joe", etc.

**justinCO** · 11-12-2008, 04:42 PM

Sweet been looking for this. Is there not a way to open a shell on your G1 itself? You can't just open say a bash shell for example and ssh from that? I thought I saw in some of the jailbreak screenshots that people had command line access.

Justin

**DDM123** · 11-12-2008, 05:27 PM

Android doesn't have ssh built-in. You can use Terminal Emulator if you have a jailbroken phone, but it's VERY limited. It doesn't even have the cp command. Not a place you want to be screwing around anyway.

Use "nano" instead of "vim" if you're lazy like me.

**justinCO** · 11-12-2008, 07:27 PM

So is ConnectBot not a full featured ssh? Can you start an sshd and ssh tunnel through your G1 for example, or export a display back to the G1 from remote machine (ssh -X)?

These would be really cool things to have, a friend of work says he can do these on his iPhone so just curious.

Also, maybe off topic, but anyone know if gcc/compilers installed? It is linux after all right? Would be sweet to have user shell access to mess around...if my dang G1 would show up already I could begin messing around

Justin