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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.
Is there an equivalent for iOS?
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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?
You can set a static IP in your wireless settings.
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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....
When I was elbow-deep in CLFS[1], I never ran into trouble getting Dropbear to compile and work with my fledgling Linux Distro, and upon reflection that is quite an accomplishment and something I'm thankful for.
Dropbear "just worked", and it worked well. It was the first "portal" into my Distro, and I can still remember SSH'ing into my system for the first time and being completely amazed it worked at all, let alone returned a shell prompt!
Open Source projects don't get enough appreciation, and our Open Source hero's, such as yourself, get even less. Thank you for Dropbear!
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Is there an equivalent for iOS?
Lol
That said, I think it might be possible but I think you might have to shim it and wouldn’t have direct access to the file system under the photos.