HOWTO: enable SSH on Android and network ADB
Activate debugging and network debugging on the android device. Find out the IP of your android device.
Run adb on your computer connecting to android over the network:
adb connect 192.168.0.16:5555 # displays "connected" message adb shell id # displays "uid=0(root) gid=0(root)"
Enabling SSH:
Push your public key to the android device to allow password-less ssh login:
adb push ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub /sdcard/authorized_keys
Jump into a shell using adb (see above) and enable ssh:
mkdir /data/dropbear mkdir /data/dropbear/.ssh mv /sdcard/authorized_keys /data/dropbear/.ssh/ chown root.root /data/dropbear/.ssh/authorized_keys dropbearkey -t rsa -f /data/dropbear/dropbear_rsa_host_key dropbearkey -t dss -f /data/dropbear/dropbear_dss_host_key chmod 755 /data/dropbear chmod 644 /data/dropbear/dropbear*host_key chmod 755 /data/dropbear/.ssh chmod 600 /data/dropbear/.ssh/authorized_keys killall dropbear dropbear -v -s -g
Then create /system/etc/init.d/30sshd with the following contents:
(you may have to “mount -o remount,rw /system” in order to write to that file)
#!/system/bin/sh dropbear -v -s -g