How to Change the Root SSH Password on Your iPhone
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When I click on the Terminal icon, Terminal opens for about a second and shots down again. I tried reinstalling and it keeps behaving exactly as I described above. Any ideas?

You probably have iPhone 4 and iOS4... I also had this problem. Here is the solution: remove it, then install the beta package from xSellize (X Apps) under the name of "MobileTerminal iOS4" (search it on Cydia).

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gosh.. ever since i changed both passwords. Im not able to log into my hotmail or yahoo mail or anything that requires login and password using iphone safari. Help!!!!!

Something else is wrong. Changing your root/mobile passwords should not effect web service logins.

yep. found out later.. solved at safari settings. ahah.. thanks

If I forgot my password, is the only way to reset it to restore my phone? I already tried reinstalling Open SSH. I THOUGHT that I knew my password but it's not letting me in, so I just need to reset the password to alpine. Any way of doing this without having to restore?

Do these if you are stick at purple sceern If you are stuck at the purple sceern, do these steps!!! (Only on 3GS or 4) 1) put your iphone to Airplane mode. 2) Go to -> Setting -> safari -> Cookies -> Accept. 3) Double tap home button. 4) Press and hold to quit safari (in multitask mode) 5) Clear all Cache n cookies. 6) Open safari and go to jailbreakme.modmyi.com 7) If cannot, Repeat!

after you change the ssh password, how do u install apps from cydia?

Changing your ssh password has no impact on how you install apps from Cydia, or any other source.

Thanks, with all the news of worms this tutorial helps ease my fears.

I really couldn't ask for more from this aritlce.

That's what we've all been waiting for! Great ptosing!

This isn't good enough. You also need to change the password for the 'mobile' account, or you're still vulnerable to information theft.

could you describe or clarify this? where and how should I change the Mobile passwd?

clarification: The iPhone has two accounts, the 'root' or master admin account, and the 'mobile' or user account. The 'mobile' account has access via ssh to all of your personal data like email, sms, contacts, etc. How to change: Pretty simple. Notice in the instructions above that when you first open Terminal on the iPhone, you're logged in as 'mobile' already, you can tell by the name before the $ on the prompt. Before you follow iClairified's instructions in the guide, just enter the command passwd to change it for 'mobile', then you can do the 'su' command to change to 'root' to change that password.

Thanks dude nice easy instructions and I'm all safe :-)

Thx a lot

Hi DistortedLoop, what should I do if I followed iclarified's instructions before I got to see your advice? Thx.

What i did (i think) is: open terminal (there i found what i previously typed) thouched the screen and pressed 'clear' then 'quit'. Then i restarted terminal and found it back to it's original state. I was then able to follow the instructions hope i'm right;-)

@johnbull - what Chris did will work, but you can also just type 'exit' to get out of su mode, at which point you'll be back as the 'mobile' user. Or, while in 'root' mode, you could also type 'passwd mobile' and follow the prompts. Best, in my opinion to get out of 'root' mode the sooner the better, so you don't do any accidental damage to the system.

Does this password reset to default if phone restored?

Yes, EVERY time you restore the firmware, whether to Apple OEM or Pwned, the password(s) are reset to 'alpine'.

What is that iClarified App?

A bookmark to the website, saved to the springboard.