Monday, May 10, 2010

Associating a Private Key using Android ConnectBot

https://isa.its.yale.edu/confluence/display/UNIXSYSPUB/Android+SSH+App+-+ConnectBot

Adding your OpenSSH Private Key

Connect your droid to your pc via USB. Copy over your ssh private key, and you can use ConnectBot's "Manage Pubkeys" tool to import it. I tried it with an OpenSSH private key, and it worked flawlessly. Importing a SSH.com key is possible, using PuTTY's keygen tool to convert the private key first.

Setting Up A Connection

Once you have your private key in ConnectBot, you can set up a connection. You can edit that connection once you've created it by long-tapping the host listing and choosing "Edit Host". When you edit the host, you can associate a private key with it, set the SSH Agent Forwarding to on, and change the font size (VITAL -- I find font size 16 to be very readable...size 10 not so much.)

1 comment:

Jack said...

I am a newbie to Android and my team leader assigned a task to me to Adding your OpenSSH Private Key Connect your Android to your pc via USB.I never knew how to achieve this and here your blog helped me thanks for sharing it.
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