The guide below will help you to install OpenSSH on your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad through Cydia Installer. Before proceeding to install OpenSSH confirm it your iDevice is jailbroken, but if not then checkout links below to our jailbreak guides.
This is an exclusive guide for those who wants to know How to Install OpenSSH on iPhone iPad or iPod touch without Cydia Installer.
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Install OpenSSH on iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad
Step-1
Tap “Cydia” from springboard
Step-2
Tap “Search” tab and search for “OpenSSH”
Step-3
When “OpenSSH” appears in search result, tap on it
Step-4
Click “Install” > ” Confirm” buttons
Step-5
On install process successful completion, click “Return to Cydia” button
Done! now you can access filesystem of your iDevice through SSH by using username: root and password: alpine.
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Are you looking for a way to control your mobile device, using your computer? Is your iPhone or iPad running an iOS 9 or lower jailbreak? Some tools, for example, some of the jailbreaks, require you to do this as do some downgrade tools like Prometheus from Tihmstar and the connection required is called SSH.
Check this out
We’re going to be showing you how to use a tool called OpenSSH to use your computer to connect to your jailbroken iPhone or iPad.
Be warned
You cannot use this on the Yalu Jailbreak for iOS 10 because they already have an SSH client and OpenSSH will just cause a conflict.
Ready? Let’s get started
How to SSH into your iPhone:
Your iPhone or iPad must be jailbroken; if it isn’t, check out our guide on Cydia and download the tool that matches your device and iOS version:
- Open Cydia and go to the Telesphoreo repository
- Download OpenSSH
- Make sure your iOS device and computer are on the same Wi-Fi network
- Open iOS Settings and tap Wi-Fi
- Tap the blue information icon (i) besides the current network
- An info page will load, make a note of the value in the IP address field
- Open Terminal on your Mac and type the command below, input the IP address you just noted in place of the x’s.
Ssh [email protected]
- You will be asked if you trust the host, type Yes and press Enter
- Now it will want the device password so it can connect. This isn’t your lock password or your computer password. If this is your first time with OpenSSH and you never changed the password, input alpine. If you have changed the password, put the new one in
- Press Enter and you will see the Terminal prompt change to read root – it is connected and any commands issued now will affect your iPhone or iPad and not your computer
See how easy it is?
And OpenSSH is free
Don’t forget, this only works on iOS 9.3.3 or lower – iOS 10 jailbreak have an SSH client called OpenBear already included and using OpenSSH will just cause problems you don’t need.
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