Hi all. I have managed to jailbreak my phone and install SSH. I have followed all the tutorials on how to get files onto my iphone via SSH but can’t actually find the files on my iphone. Do i have to put them in certain folders? AM i looking in the right places? Please help as i am getting frustrated with the whole process. Cheers
1/2/10 03:33 am:
Right after jailbreaking my iphone 3g via blacksn0w, I prior to reading your great article, went ahead and changed my psw via . However, with regards to your procedures, I have not been able to get past the (using my Windows XP SP3 computer). There could be three points of error:
1) Host name: I’ve tried a mixture of either: and
2) User Name:
3) Password: I’ve tried a combination (with regards to #1 above) of: and .
Good tutorial, it is one of the first you see when you google SSH iPhone. However, the threats to jailbroken iPhones/iPod touches with OpenSSH installed are now very real and very dangerous. Please tell people to change both the root and mobile passwords after installing OpenSSH. You can link to a number of tutorials online, like Secure Your Jailbroken iPhone and Change your Default Password
If you are a user who read this, you should follow that link and change the passwords! Some users’ money was stolen after they failed to do so. It is an open door for criminal hackers.
@Steve
The whole tutorial is about how to do this in Windows. WinSCP is the SSH client for Windows. It’s a free download. Cydia is a program on jailbroken iPhones.
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July 5, 2009 •
Hi all. I have managed to jailbreak my phone and install SSH. I have followed all the tutorials on how to get files onto my iphone via SSH but can’t actually find the files on my iphone. Do i have to put them in certain folders? AM i looking in the right places? Please help as i am getting frustrated with the whole process. Cheers
if it says connection timeout- what could be the possible problem?
1/2/10 03:33 am:
Right after jailbreaking my iphone 3g via blacksn0w, I prior to reading your great article, went ahead and changed my psw via . However, with regards to your procedures, I have not been able to get past the (using my Windows XP SP3 computer). There could be three points of error:
1) Host name: I’ve tried a mixture of either: and
2) User Name:
3) Password: I’ve tried a combination (with regards to #1 above) of: and .
Please advise!!!
Hi Vinay,
Good tutorial, it is one of the first you see when you google SSH iPhone. However, the threats to jailbroken iPhones/iPod touches with OpenSSH installed are now very real and very dangerous. Please tell people to change both the root and mobile passwords after installing OpenSSH. You can link to a number of tutorials online, like Secure Your Jailbroken iPhone and Change your Default Password
If you are a user who read this, you should follow that link and change the passwords! Some users’ money was stolen after they failed to do so. It is an open door for criminal hackers.
@Steve
The whole tutorial is about how to do this in Windows. WinSCP is the SSH client for Windows. It’s a free download. Cydia is a program on jailbroken iPhones.
By the way, don’t forget those passwords…
hello guys. is there any similar way for windows?
Where do you get the password from?
thanks so much! this was a great help. super fast and easy.