
A few good free FTP clients are CyberDuck for Mac, or Filezilla for Mac, Windows, and Linux. You’ll use the same IP address, login, and password as connecting with SSH, just from an ftp client instead of the Terminal. Transferring files to the iPhone or iPad is just a matter of using SFTP after OpenSSH has been installed and is running. Again, I’ll suggest Prompt from iOS App Store, but there are other options out there. SSH into your iPhone from the iPhone (or iPad to itself, etc) ie: Connect to localhostįor connecting to localhost from your iOS device, you just need to have an SSH or Terminal client on the iPhone itself. If you plan on connecting to your iOS device frequently, you may want to set a manual DHCP IP address so that it doesn’t change on you, and then setup an SSH alias so you don’t have to type the entire connection string again. This is very easy and only takes a moment. The video below walks through the process of changing the root passwords. Now you’ll want to change the ‘mobile’ ID password to be safe, this is basically the same procedure: Provide a new password and then confirm it when asked. This is just a matter of typing the following command: The first thing you’re going to want to do is change the default passwords, otherwise anyone on the network could theoretically connect to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. You will now be connected to your iPhone or iPad via SSH. Step 3) Change the Default iOS Passwords: You can learn more about using the Mac SSH client here if interested. When asked for a password, use “alpine” but without the quotes, this is the default password for all iOS devices.Wait a minute or two while the SSH encryption keys are generated, accept them when (if) asked – this delay only occurs the first time you ssh from a computer to the iOS device.Ssh to use the IP address you found in the prior step on your iPhone Type the following at the command line:.
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Launch Cydia and search for and install OpenSSH (it’s in the networking section on Cydia) – you won’t see anything on your Springboard because this runs in the background.After your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch is jailbroken, proceed with the following:
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How to Setup SSH and then Connect with SSH to an iPhone or iPadĪs previously mentioned, the first thing you need to do is jailbreak, that is out of the scope of this article but it’s easy to do. To clarify, this is a guide on how to setup the ability to SSH into your iPhone or iPad from another machine, if you are just looking for an SSH client for the iPhone or iPad, Prompt on the iOS App Store is by far the best, and costs $15 or so. How to do this varies on what version of iOS your hardware is using, but you can find our jailbreak info here depending on your specific iOS version and device model of iPhone or iPad. As it turns out for us nerdier users, this ability is disabled without a jailbreak, so in order to SSH into your iOS device you will need to jailbreak first.
