Jan 20, 2025

SSH into phone with termux

pretty simple setup, works in private network and such and phone doesn't needs to be rooted

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2025-01-20 00:00 +0000 [04bdc08 @ 2025-05-30]

Plan

have termux on phone and we are going to get the IP, username and password and then run the server on termux and connect to if from phone.

for this run:

pkg install iproute2
ip a

and get wlan0 IP or something similar like wlan1 if phone is using Wi-Fi.

username is simplest. you just run:

whoami

pretty self-explanatory and it will output username.

the password is for logging in and you probably don’t have it set, so run:

passwd

and set it.

first download openssh package:

pkg install openssh

and then run the server:

sshd

also you can run sshd & if you want ssh server to keep running in the background after closing termux.

to connect to that phone run:

ssh -p 8022 <username>@<phone IP>

-p specifies the port for connection and 8022 is default on phone I think.