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Change Your iPhone/iPod Touch Root Password

November 9th, 2009 admin

If you aren’t jailbroken, ignore this.

IMG_0050There was a recent hack targeted towards jailbroken iPhone’s running on 3G networks with the SSH daemon enabled. This changed your wallpaper to what you see below.

ikee-iphone-wallpaperThere are a few easy ways to prevent something like this from happening. You can simply disable the SSH daemon with something like SBSettings. OR, you can change your iPhone’s root password (which all jailbroken users should do regardless).

If you want to change your root password, here’s how to do it. You can use SSH itself, or MobileTerminal on your device. If you’re using MobileTerminal, make sure you login as root first (login root, then alpine).

  1. passwd
  2. [enter new password]
  3. [enter new password again]

There. It’s that simple. This quick command can keep you safe from over the air hackers. If you’re on a iPod Touch, it’s also recommended to do this. Someone could be looking for iPod Touch’s with the SSH daemon enabled.

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  • tonkck

    Very helpful post. You write verry good, keep up the good work and I will keep on visiting!

  • tonkck

    Very helpful post. You write verry good, keep up the good work and I will keep on visiting!

  • tonkck

    Very helpful post. You write verry good, keep up the good work and I will keep on visiting!

  • Djm78

    I have an ipod touch 4th gen. I jailbroke it and installed mobile terminal. When I tap on the mobile terminal icon mobile terminal opens and then closes right back down. It won’t stay open to allow me to change my root password. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

  • http://gumballtech.com brian

    You only need to worry about changing your password if you have OpenSSH installed. There’s no point in really having it installed, unless you do a lot of command-line work.

  • Ordinary Boy

    mobile terminal cant be used yet in IPT4G. instead, change your password via PC using the PUTTY software. just google it.
    gluck

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