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I use an ad-free, open-source Android app called SimpleSSHD that implements a Dropbear SSH server. Being able to SSH into your phone and wirelessly perform an incremental rsync backup of all your photos and data is life-changing compared to the hell that is cables and the MTP protocol. Thank you to all these projects for delivering me from the clutches of MTP, I am indebted.
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Nginx won because it was faster, simpler and more easily extended, not because it was "lightweight" per se. In comparison, dropbear doesn't really do anything that ssh doesn't, and lags in a bunch of esoteric features that "most" people don't use but that inevitably some people do. Who wants to use a distro where one's preferred ssh-agent feature or X11 forwarding inexplicably doesn't work? Dropbear is small and buil…
Dropbear author here. It used to have one unique feature, but OpenSSH has copied it now[0] :) dbclient host1,host2,user@host3 to onion-TCP-forward through a few hosts. [0] https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/openssh-client/ssh.1.en....
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It was never an issue for me. Giving the SimpleSSHD docs a quick glance, the app itself does not operate as root, although its packaged subcomponents like rsync optionally can depending on what shell you point them to. My phone isn't rooted. Everything in /storage/emulated/0 backs up without issue. Obviously not a full system backup, but all my data none the less. With regards to write permission, I've only ever issu…
If you only need a shell, adb does that, as well as blazing fast file transfer (for the standards of MTP).
I use an ad-free, open-source Android app called SimpleSSHD that implements a Dropbear SSH server. Being able to SSH into your phone and wirelessly perform an incremental rsync backup of all your photos and data is life-changing compared to the hell that is cables and the MTP protocol. Thank you to all these projects for delivering me from the clutches of MTP, I am indebted.
Dropbear works well for preboot LUKS unlocking with remote servers.
Remote FDE? Yes please!
I use an ad-free, open-source Android app called SimpleSSHD that implements a Dropbear SSH server. Being able to SSH into your phone and wirelessly perform an incremental rsync backup of all your photos and data is life-changing compared to the hell that is cables and the MTP protocol. Thank you to all these projects for delivering me from the clutches of MTP, I am indebted.
Since the phone's IP address can be expected to change, you can't really use that to choose the right key to present, or to verify the host fingerprint right?. How do you work around this?
I use an ad-free, open-source Android app called SimpleSSHD that implements a Dropbear SSH server. Being able to SSH into your phone and wirelessly perform an incremental rsync backup of all your photos and data is life-changing compared to the hell that is cables and the MTP protocol. Thank you to all these projects for delivering me from the clutches of MTP, I am indebted.
Dropbear works well for preboot LUKS unlocking with remote servers.
For automatic unlocking at unattended reboots of LUKS-locked remote servers, see Mandos: https://www.recompile.se/mandos
Dropbear works well for preboot LUKS unlocking with remote servers.