Comments on: Change the iPhone’s root password http://osxdaily.com/2010/02/06/change-the-iphones-root-password/ News, tips, software, reviews, and more for Mac OS X, iPhone, iPad Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:38:46 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Valashtar http://osxdaily.com/2010/02/06/change-the-iphones-root-password/#comment-99701 Valashtar Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:31:45 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=2429#comment-99701 You don't even need "login root" or "su root" - "su" will get you to root even faster. You don’t even need “login root” or “su root” – “su” will get you to root even faster.

]]> By: Jasper http://osxdaily.com/2010/02/06/change-the-iphones-root-password/#comment-99698 Jasper Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:32:19 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=2429#comment-99698 Oops! That'll teach me to skim read - sorry. Oops! That’ll teach me to skim read – sorry.

]]> By: Jasper http://osxdaily.com/2010/02/06/change-the-iphones-root-password/#comment-99697 Jasper Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:31:17 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=2429#comment-99697 Surely you're logged in as mobile there, and would need to su root first, otherwise you're changing mobile's password. Surely you’re logged in as mobile there, and would need to su root first, otherwise you’re changing mobile’s password.

]]> By: Valashtar http://osxdaily.com/2010/02/06/change-the-iphones-root-password/#comment-99695 Valashtar Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:44:37 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=2429#comment-99695 Really, this is only a pressing concern if you've installed OpenSSH, and leave it on all the time. If you have installed OpenSSH, you can just connect your iPhone to your wireless network and fire up Terminal on your Mac. Then ssh root@192.168.1.120 (assuming that's something close to your IP address) will get you into your iPhone, and you can then just run passwd from there. For those of you who don't want to install another application that you may or may not use on your iPhone. Really, this is only a pressing concern if you’ve installed OpenSSH, and leave it on all the time. If you have installed OpenSSH, you can just connect your iPhone to your wireless network and fire up Terminal on your Mac.

Then
ssh root@192.168.1.120
(assuming that’s something close to your IP address)
will get you into your iPhone, and you can then just run passwd from there.

For those of you who don’t want to install another application that you may or may not use on your iPhone.

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