Script to set up ssh login to Ubuntu Touch

[Ingo]

After I switched from 15.04 to 16.04 and back again I found it quite a hassle to enable ssh each time again. So I wrote a little script which is available at

Ingo-FP-Angel/enablessl

Versions for unix/linux and windows exist. A mac version is unrealistic as I don’t have access to one.

[oli.sax]

Good idea ! Enabling SSH is still on my todo list, so when I’ll try it I will consider your script ! For the moment I only use “adb shell”.

For those interrested, a UbuntuTouch user (Kris) made a blog post about several utilisations/applications of SSH .

[Ingo]

There are a few things in that article that I find doubtful

• “Just remember that increased key length also means slower decryption during your ssh connection”
  • that’s not true, the public/private RSA keys are not used for the actual encryption which is done using a symmetric session key (roughly speaking)
• “As for the password, it is up to you, but since the keys themselves are considered already higher security than a regular password authentication, I don’t use password with them when meant to deploy them to my UT devices”
  • I find that a dangerous oversimplification

[Ingo]

Updated my repo and added a windows (powershell) version of the script.