Change your jailbroken iPhone SSH password with MobileTerminal

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 6:20

Change your jailbroken iPhone SSH password with MobileTerminal There’s an iPhone infection going around, so we thought it would be a good idea to post a quick “How-to” guide for changing your jailbroken iPhone’s SSH password. Unlike the Swine Flu, no amount of hand-washing or coughing into the bend in your arm is going to prevent your jailbroken iPhone from contracting a malicious infection. On the plus-side, changing the default password on your jailbroken iPhone should inoculate your handset from current iPhone worms.

If you’re using a jailbroken iPhone, iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS, and you’ve messed around with SSH before, we highly recommend you change your SSH password.

Here’s how:

Since you’re jailbroken, you have Cydia installed on your iPhone. Fire up Cydia.
Find the “MobileTerminal” app and install it.
Fire up the “MobileTerminal” app from your homescreen.
Type in the command “su root” and hit enter (without quotes).
When prompted for your password, type in “alpine” and hit enter.
Type in the command “passwd” and hit enter.
You’ll be prompted for a new password. Enter something you’re likely to remember. Seriously, don’t put down something obscure that you’ll forget – that might come back to bite you later on.
Repeat your new password.
That’s it! You are now protected from all current SSH backdoor security threats.

The entire process takes maybe a minute, depending on how long it takes for you to download/install MobileTerminal and how long it takes you to type in the above commands. There’s really no excuse for not changing your password.

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