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Short and Sweet SSH Guide for the iPhone

cyberin — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:19:59 EDT

For those of you who on a Mac that do not want to play with the terminal a you can use cyberduck to easily connect to your iphone

For detailed instructions you can visit my post at: [tekfreak.blogspot.com]

cyberin

Short and Sweet SSH Guide for the iPhone

bhobichi — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:32:25 EDT

please help me out.... whenever I am trying to access my iphone (version 1.1.4) via my laptop - windows vista , through PUTY, I am getting the command within a dialogue box 'server unexpectedly closed the network connction'. how can I access my iphone then?

bhobichi

Short and Sweet SSH Guide for the iPhone

SanandaDandradeine — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:48:16 EDT

Better not use "passwd" to change your password, it got MY phone stuck in an infinite loop. If you are too one of the unfortunate, follow the instructions at: http://blog.matsimitsu.nl/english/183/howto-fix-the-edit-home-screen-loop-for-iphone

SanandaDandradeine

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ReginaDandogs — Fri, 02 May 2008 21:05:33 EDT

@rambert:
Comment on Short and Sweet SSH Guide for the iPhone well, i tried fixing the safari cookies folder bug in which safari forced me to enter the user pass a zillion times. but when i installed the term-100 i experienced that i couldn't log in with neither the dottie nor the alpine... however i decided to restore the phone to 1.1.4 completely and then ziphone 3.0 now i don't have the safari bug. haven't checked the term login bug yet... so far, havn't had a need for that. I also encourage you to try the AFP service in the iPhone and pressing CommandKey + K it allows for easy transfering anything back and forth

ReginaDandogs

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ReginaDandogs — Fri, 02 May 2008 20:59:22 EDT

@xdcdx:
Comment on Short and Sweet SSH Guide for the iPhone i know its pretty late... but definitely the SSH consumes a lot of battery.

ReginaDandogs

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rambert — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:42:58 EDT

@emburaman:
There is a bit of confusion on this. On my phone s/w v1.1.3,
user:root
pass:alpine
works well.

On a related note, while using MobileTerminal application (v1.0) on the phone, I am unable to "su" using the same password. I keep getting incorrect password error.
Has anybody seen this problem?
Neither dottie nor alpine gets me to root.

rambert

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emburaman — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:48:01 EDT

Mine too! Not logging in with "dottie"

emburaman

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thomas222 — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:40:51 EST

terminal doesn't accept the password dottie on my comp. can anyone tell me why?

thomas222

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kray99 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:18:51 EST

The password is "alpine" now.

kray99

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Tony536 — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:04:14 EST

After I connect using PuTTY it allows me to enter the username "root" but then doesn't allow me to type in the password??

Tony536

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raj — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:22:12 EDT

Does this version of sshd support the ability to forward a port across the connection? If so, I'm wondering if I could setup an iPhone such that Safari used a proxy at 127.0.0.0.1:80, then have ssh forward that port across the connection and into my company's network, allowing me to view internal company web pages using my phone! :)

raj

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englishman — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:06:40 EDT

Anyone going to try and install apache on there now you have BSD subsystem and openSSH to get stuff there?

Who will have the first publically accessable iPhone webserver?

englishman

Short and Sweet SSH Guide for the iPhone

englishman — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:04:23 EDT

Yay! BSD subsystem on an iPhone? Now all you need is to install Apache on there, and set up your iPhone as a webserver... Anyone going to try it?

englishman

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Kobe_No_Means_No — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 03:20:03 EDT

Well, thanks to user Mercury7 on Engadget I found the directions to using unlocking iPhone using AnySim. Here it is for those of you looking for it:

---WINDOWS USERS---
Unlock your iPhone without any prior hacks needed.

Follow these steps to install anySIM.
1. Download and install iTunes 7.3.0.5 - [www.pqdvd.com]
2. Download and extract iBrickr 0.8 to your desktop - [cre.ations.net]
3. Connect your iPhone
4. Launch iBrickr.exe from the directory you installed it to
5. Follow all instructions in iBricker to Jailbreak your phone
6. Relaunch iBrickr
7. Click "Applications"
8. Follow instructions to install PXL
9. Click "Browse"
10. Click "anySIM"
11. Now, it's installed on your phone.

Follow these steps to unlock your phone after you've installed the application.
1. Disconnect your phone from the computer.
2. Follow these instructions to install a different sim card - [www.maclife.com]
3. Ensuring the new card is installed properly, launch anySIM from your iPhone springboard (the icons on the home page)
4. Agree to the agreement (press OK)
5. Wait for a while (~15 mins)
6. You're done!

Kobe_No_Means_No

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Kobe_No_Means_No — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 02:57:59 EDT

I meant the AnySim Iphone Unlock app... i recalled reading some helpful comments under that post, but it seems like the comments section has been locked. I just purchased an iphone and wanted to try to unlock it.

Kobe_No_Means_No

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Kobe_No_Means_No — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 02:56:02 EDT

Can anyone access the iunlock post that's just a few posts under this one? Has that post been locked?

Kobe_No_Means_No

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Joseph — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:02:09 EDT

!!! There is an step missing from these instructions !!!

Now, open up Installer on your iPhone and install the "BSD Subsystem" and "OpenSSH".

1. Install "BSD Subsystem"
2. Install "Community Sources" (This is missing- Installer v2.63 has this intermediate application)
3. Install "OpenSSH"

Joseph

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Joseph — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:54:05 EDT

I was at work and sshed into my co-workers Linux box 4 weeks ago. Did a wall on his machine while sitting in his office and totally freaked him out.

Joseph

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BurstAneurysm — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:18:36 EDT

I use this with Cyberduck for Mac... works like a charm.

Just set the client to SFTP and configure the same way.

BurstAneurysm

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rawhead — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:34:17 EDT

@xdcdx:

Well, I don't know how scientific this is, but I ssh'd in to the iPhone that's been up and running for a while (of course with OpenSSH installed) and did a Top. Here's what I got:

Processes: 22 total, 1 running, 21 sleeping... 83 threads 16:31:47
Load Avg: 0.35, 0.11, 0.04 CPU usage: 9.9% user, 11.7% sys, 78.4% idle
SharedLibs: num = 0, resident = 0B code, 0B data, 0B LinkEdit
MemRegions: num = 2661, resident = 47.1M + 0B private, 20.8M shared
PhysMem: 18.3M wired, 20.4M active, 10.5M inactive, 49.2M used, 2.03M free
VM: 298P + 0B 10412(0) pageins, 0(0) pageouts

PID COMMAND %CPU TIME 19516 top 9.9% 0:08.69 1 18928 sh 0.0% 0:01.19 1 18897 sshd 0.0% 0:02.00 1 14560 MobileSlid 0.0% 0:41.77 2 13476 MobileMusi 0.0% 0:01.95 2 7667 MobileSafa 0.0% 2:01.46 48 MobilePhon 0.0% 0:04.31 27 notifyd 0.0% 0:10.18 2 152 26 PXLdaemon 0.0% 0:02.11 1 25 mediaserve 0.0% 0:08.83 14 24 ptpd 0.0% 0:01.39 2 22 syslogd 1.8% 12:55.79 3 21 lockdownd 0.0% 0:02.47 3 20 mDNSRespon 0.0% 0:03.13 2 19 iapd 0.0% 0:05.29 4 18 cron 0.0% 0:01.15 1 17 crashrepor 0.0% 0:01.06 1 16 configd 0.0% 0:35.50 4 129 15 SpringBoar 0.0% 2:16.05 13 13 CommCenter 0.0% 0:09.51 10 12 BTServer 0.0% 0:01.48 5 1 launchd 0.9% 9:08.00 3 #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VSIZE
17 47 832K 472K 0B 4.45P
13 30 304K 960K 0B 4.22P
14 30 328K 608K 0B 2.89P
77 188 2.14M 4.71M 781T 10P
49 166 2.02M 4.73M 234T 11P
6 181 442 18.6M 12.7M 2.37P 141P
2 103 210 2.83M 6.43M 0B 21P
25 212K 252K 0B 1.58P
15 103 584K 1.19M 0B 3.31P
150 166 1.41M 1.61M 78.1T 7.44P
51 71 512K 1.04M 0B 3.97P
35 28 216K 272K 0B 1.67P
46 74 596K 884K 1.18P 4.67P
45 48 424K 580K 0B 3.27P
80 144 900K 2.09M 0B 5.89P
13 42 276K 364K 0B 1.84P
41 60 364K 456K 39.1T 2.20P
68 700K 852K 0B 5.39P
211 545 12.3M 13.5M 390T 47P
87 76 928K 700K 0B 5.59P
53 70 588K 1.09M 0B 5.19P
65 28 232K 296K 0B 1.67P

So, even while OpenSSH is being actively used (i.e., me logging in, running Top, etc.), it's consuming very little CPU cycles.

rawhead

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xdcdx — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:03:42 EDT

I've been reading contradictory reports on whether or not having OpenSSH installed is a battery drainer.

See here: [ask.metafilter.com]

What do you guys think? It really runs only on-demand, or the daemon is running all the time consuming the battery?

xdcdx

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Jason Chen — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:53:25 EDT

@premek: Thanks premek. Didn't see that it was installed!

Jason Chen

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premek — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:43:25 EDT

Forgot to say - do it when logged on an iPhone (via installed terminal or with ssh).

premek

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premek — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:42:24 EDT

Since the executable "passwd" is installed, why not change the password with it? Certainly easier and standard way ... when logged as root, simply type passwd and input the desired password twice. Works right away, no restart necessary (just try to login again)

premek

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maloleche — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:31:47 EDT

Instead of typing in the perl stuff and doing the whole copy and paste thing to set your password you can just type this

passwd

and then type in your new password. that's all there is to it.

maloleche