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Does this work on Windows / OS X / Linux / ChromeOS?

Currently it's tested and working on ChromeOS. On other platforms you may run into some issues with the operating system firewall.

On OS X you should be able to either disable the system firewall, or allow Chrome to accept incoming connections.

In Windows you can disable the windows firewall, or possibly find out how to allow Chrome to accept incoming connections.

What use is this?

You can create rules to forward connections made to the computer where this app is installed to go to another computer (or virtual machine, etc)

How do I SSH into a Chromebook without developer mode?

1. Install termux on the Chromebook
2. open termux and type pkg install openssh
3. create a private/public key pair inside termux by typing ssh-keygen
4. type cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
5. Copy out the private key from termux: cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa (copy to clipboard)
6. Put that private key on any computer you want to give access (For example, paste it into ~/Downloads/id_rsa
7. You can use Secure Shell or on OS X you can use Terminal.app or on Windows you might want to use Cygwin
8. On OS X for example ssh -i ~/Downloads/id_rsa {IP_ADDRESS_OF_CHROMEBOOK}:8022
9. Make sure you configured connection forwarder to have a port forwarding rule from 0.0.0.0:8022 to {ANDROID_IP}:8022