Termux Install SSH Server

Termux in Google play store is outdated and to get the latest version of Termux you will need to get it from F-Droid. Once you successfully install Termux, update it.

pkg update

Upgrade it if it is outdated.

pkg upgrade

To install SSH server, run

pkg install openssh

Set a password to your current user by running

passwd

To find out your user ID, run

whoami

My phone is currently connected to the wifi, to find out the IP address run

ifconfig|grep inet

To start it, run

sshd

To customize the SSH server, the sshd_config is located at

/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/etc/ssh/sshd_config

Add these 2 configurations to the file

Port 8022
ListenAddress 0.0.0.0

Do not set port to 22 as it will not run. If you Android wifi has static address, you can set the ListenAddress to the static address.

Now that you know all the information required to connect it through SSH. To connect to it run

ssh -p 8022 u0_a306@192.168.1.251

To access phone internal storage, run the command below and give permission to termux in android settings.

termux-setup-storage

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