Termux

One post on X complained, in essence: you can send instructions to Claude Code from the official phone app, but for some settings and connector re-authentication you are sent back to the terminal on the PC. They wanted to finish that from the app while away from home. I use a different setup, one that avoids that situation. I don’t go through the app. I open the terminal that Claude Code runs in, as is, on my phone. This article describes how it works and where it falls short. ...

I added an entry to ~/.ssh/config so I could scp images from my desktop to my Pixel 6 (running Termux’s sshd), and I put a User in it. Then I noticed: when the other end is Termux, ssh banana@<phone> and ssh root@<phone> both log in as the same user. The User line in ~/.ssh/config does nothing. It’s not a config problem — it’s how Termux’s OpenSSH is built. First, the observation $ ssh -p 8022 banana@100.65.202.69 'whoami' u0_a440 $ ssh -p 8022 root@100.65.202.69 'whoami' u0_a440 Copy banana and root both connect, and both land as u0_a440 (the Termux app’s user). The key is checked only against /data/data/com.termux/files/home/.ssh/authorized_keys. ...