Jsch works on android. With the only dependency, jzlib, satisfied the java based implementation of ssh is beginning to code relatively straight forward. After many days of trial and error the correct syntax to the commands, and the methods of particular classes are beginning to make sense. Password login is relatively straight forward, and with a little bit of encryption added to the internal storage location the password should be relatively secure on a mobile device. Ultimately the goal is to create an RSA key on the mobile device, connect initially with a password, and add the public key to the authorized keys file. Then the key on the device can bypass password login altogether.

Right now I have several ssh connections, running various commands, operating in background threads. I’m working on displaying progress bars to add a ui to the connection process. Ultimately the final ssh command will generate output to populate several views in a new activity.

Yes it would be nice for Jsch to have more documentation, but compared to the size, and dependencies requirements, of other java based ssh packages I find the Jsch package well consolidated and not dependency heavy.