ALPINE password change
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- 04-02-2009 05:44 PMLike 0
- If you have to ask, then you probably haven't changed what you think you changed.
alpine is the default password of the root account on your phone. Once you're jailbroken you can ssh into the phone from your computer, connect as root (using this password) and change stuff. Mobile Terminal is a (jailbroken) application that allows you to do the same thing.
04-06-2009 03:17 PMLike 0 - If you have to ask, then you probably haven't changed what you think you changed.
alpine is the default password of the root account on your phone. Once you're jailbroken you can ssh into the phone from your computer, connect as root (using this password) and change stuff. Mobile Terminal is a (jailbroken) application that allows you to do the same thing.
The point is that if password was changed and I forgot it. is there a way to reset it without reinstall?
thanks.04-07-2009 04:02 PMLike 0 -
For the dude that asked how to change the root password (and you really should):
1) Download Mobile Terminal from Cydia (it's a great app to have)
2) Start up Mobile Terminal
3) Type in "su root" minus the quotation marks
4) It will ask for the current password, which is by default "alpine", again minus the quotes
5) Type in "passwd", still no quotes
6) Now you have to type in what you want your new password to be. Bear in mind that this text will not appear on screen, nor will any other character. Also bear in mind that this is case sensitive.
7) You will have to enter in your password a second time to confirm.
You have now changed your root password. Do try and remember it.04-09-2009 08:48 PMLike 0 - Bumping this to the top! With all the issues circulating with people hacking into others who have SSH on, it's very important to change the root pw on your jailbroken iPhone to prevent this. I just posted a tutorial to this on my site but above, jellmoo described the same easy way I did in order to accomplish this.
This can protect your from several hacking vulnerabilities if you're jailbroken, and it only takes about 20 seconds of your time!11-03-2009 05:25 PMLike 0 - Bumping this to the top! With all the issues circulating with people hacking into others who have SSH on, it's very important to change the root pw on your jailbroken iPhone to prevent this. I just posted a tutorial to this on my site but above, jellmoo described the same easy way I did in order to accomplish this.
This can protect your from several hacking vulnerabilities if you're jailbroken, and it only takes about 20 seconds of your time!
is there a way to have a password on the iphone instead of the passcode with the numbers??
i had a blackberry before the iphone and i really miss the password....
thanks11-03-2009 05:37 PMLike 0 - Bumping this to the top! With all the issues circulating with people hacking into others who have SSH on, it's very important to change the root pw on your jailbroken iPhone to prevent this. I just posted a tutorial to this on my site but above, jellmoo described the same easy way I did in order to accomplish this.
This can protect your from several hacking vulnerabilities if you're jailbroken, and it only takes about 20 seconds of your time!11-03-2009 05:45 PMLike 0 - 11-03-2009 05:49 PMLike 0
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I'd say use one of the above, and as with anything, submit a feedback request to Apple requesting this feature.
Apple's feedback form can be found here,
Apple - iPhone - Feedback
in the dropdown menu, select enhancement request. I've seen several people submit feedback requests to Apple and what do you know, it pops up in a firmware update! They really do read them and do what they can.11-03-2009 06:10 PMLike 0 - So really there's no way to just have a password on the lockscreen..yeah i think i need to complain to apple about it11-03-2009 08:40 PMLike 0
- you can also change the PW using something like PuTTy for the PC and SSH'ng to the phone. The command to change the PW is the same.11-03-2009 10:02 PMLike 0
- Did you change the user password or the root password?
For the dude that asked how to change the root password (and you really should):
1) Download Mobile Terminal from Cydia (it's a great app to have)
2) Start up Mobile Terminal
3) Type in "su root" minus the quotation marks
4) It will ask for the current password, which is by default "alpine", again minus the quotes
5) Type in "passwd", still no quotes
6) Now you have to type in what you want your new password to be. Bear in mind that this text will not appear on screen, nor will any other character. Also bear in mind that this is case sensitive.
7) You will have to enter in your password a second time to confirm.
You have now changed your root password. Do try and remember it.11-03-2009 10:20 PMLike 0 - There must be some kind of electrical disturbance around me. I can not get Mobile Terminal to work. At all. And I can not get Google Calendar Sync to work. At all. That's on my Windows 7 laptop. Just can not get these two simple little programs to do. Anything. At. All.11-04-2009 08:19 AMLike 0
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If you're using a mac, fugu is an awesome free SSH client.11-04-2009 12:39 PMLike 0 -
You may have to check your wireless router isn't blocking wireless devices from communicating. I ran into this problem recently ( and wanted to throw my router across the room when I figured out the problem ) lol.11-04-2009 05:17 PMLike 0
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