How to Change Your Jailbroken iPhone's Root Password
How to Change Your Jailbroken iPhone's Root Password
The recent spate of worm attacks in the past week has brought the focus on the importance of your root password. Unlike feature phones, smartphones like the iPhone run on operating systems, which very much like our computer have administrator privileges. It is hence that when the hackers get access...
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Then you should run:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk0s1Seriously, dont run that.. but i really feel for the jailbreaker who doesn't know unix. It makes life a lot harder. I think if you a Apple user Mac/Iphone you should really get yourself some sort of Unix/BSD for dummies type book. Both are build on these platforms and you'll never really get the most of your devices until you at least can grasp basic command line unix.
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Then I should get grammar check for dummies. Sorry.
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Question, does jailbreaking my iPhone automatically enable SSH? If so, can SSH just be disable instead?
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You MUST also change the password for the 'mobile' account. Failure to do so leaves your system wide-open to any data snooper/thief with ssh. They just ssh in as mobile@youriphone'sipaddress. Every blog on the net talking about this threat is failing to mention that the 'mobile' account is vulnerable as well. Just follow the steps above, but from mobile terminal, do the passwd command before following these steps, or if you do it via ssh, do "su mobile" then "passwd" after changing the one for root.
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Downloading 'Dummies' now
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No, you just need to install ssh from cydia in order tu run it. doesnt come installed by default.
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Does this mean I dont have to worry about changing my root password since I only jail broken but didnt install SSH?
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changed passwd but now i cant ssh. I did make sure the password was right. What can it be? user name is still root and then the new passwd. I need some help.
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Then I should get grammar check for dummies. Sorry.
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What if you don't have SSH on your jailbreak phone, do i still need to follow these instructions?
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No - if you don't have SSH installed on your jailbroken iPhone, you have nothing to worry about =)
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Worked like a charm thanks guys
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Anyone, Please tell me how to go to Springboard????
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Ed - are you sure you changed root's password, and not mobile's?
Is ssh actually running? Can you actually ssh into the phone, but it won't accept the password?
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Well i dont think i have ssh on this phone so can i still have to do these instructions that help me?
cheers for the help
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Thanks for the tip, now my mobile and root passwords are changed!
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hi.help needed!!!.phone is jailbroken.i cant get any new themes to work.i`ve followed the tutorial on this site to the letter but to no avail.what am i missing.any help would be great thanks.....
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I use transmit, it says, permission denied. I followed the steps. What do you think?
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not denied but refused.
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I got it. My mistake was downloading the wrong app from cydia. Thanks for the help.
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what s the default password for mobile? thanks
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the default password for mobile is the same as it is for the root. alpine
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Cheers Fellas, for posting all this on here
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Once you change it, is there a command u should input to end that session?
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if all i have done is Jailbreak, and installed a few apps, like MiWi, Mi3g, and backgrounder (this is all i wanted to jailbreak for anyway) do I need to worry about any of this. I have not installed any command prompt or done anything that had anything to do with SSH. I guess my question is how do I know if I need to do this.
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Tony it is clear. If you have jailbroken your phone you need to do this.
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Hey guys I inserted passwd and it worked fine... but then after that i think i wrote my new password wrongly, so I pressed clear.... and even after I reinstalled mobile terminal I still get stuck at the passwd area, they keep saying "another passwd process is running" what do I do?
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If you don't have ssh installed on your phone, you don't have to worry about it.
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i have installed mobile terminal and ssh is installed. i open it up and start the process with su, but when i get to type the password. the cursor doesnt move and nothing happens, if i hit return is says incorrect password.. any help would be greatful
