SSH Guide
For Windows and Macintosh
(You must have your Apple device connected to a WiFi router, along with your computer)
Starting with your iPhone or iPod touch (Demonstrated with iPhone 3G)
Step 1) Make sure that your iPhone or iPod Touch is jailbroken, activated, and ready to work.
Step 2) Launch “Cydia” on your device.
Step 3) In Cydia, tap “Sections” at the bottom of the screen, and then tap “All Packages”.
Step 4) Scroll down to “OpenSSH”, tap it and then install it.
Step 5) On your Apple device, locate your WiFi network under “Settings”. Tap on the small arrow beside it and locate your “IP Address”. Log this number or keep that window open until you enter it on the following step.
Proceed to appropriate operating system instructions
Windows (Demonstrated in Vista)
Step 6) On your computer, go to http://winscp.net and download the latest version of the WinSCP software.
*Be sure to select “Installation Package” after clicking the “Download” link.
Step 7) Install the WinSCP software
Step 8 ) Launch WinSCP, you will see a screen like this:
Step 9) Insert login data on WinSCP window as follows:
Host Name: (Your “IP Address” from step 5)
User Name: root
Password: alpine
File Protocol: SFTP
Port Number: 22
Step 10) If a message pops up that says that says the RSA fingerprint keys do not match, ignore it and continue. If you are successful, you will arrive at this window:
You are now inside the file system of your device; you can read files and write files to the device in any folder.
Macintosh (Demonstrated with OS X 10.5.5 Leopard)
Step 6) Download Cyberduck by going to http://cyberduck.ch/
Step 7) Install the software
Step 8 ) Open Terminal (found under the “Go” menu under “Utilities”)
Step 9) Type in as follows: ssh root@(Your “IP Address” from Step 5)
Step 10) It will ask you to add your device as a known host, type: yes
* There will be a short delay before it responds, after this you may close Terminal.
Step 11) Open Cyberduck and click on “Open Connection”.
Step 12) Enter the following information in the window and click “Connect”:
Protocol: SFTP
Port: 22
Server: (IP Address from Step 5)
Username: root
Password: alpine
You should now be able to view the contents of your Apple device.
I used to be able to put files in a folder on my iPod Touch with this method, and then view them in Safari. That was before I updated to 2.2
Using this method, I am still able to put files onto my iPod but when I enter the address in Safari, I get this:
No Permission
You do not have permission to view “whatever.html”.
Any ideas of how I can change the permissions?
What kind of files do you access in Safari? MobileFinder is a much easier method to browse and open files on a device, because you don’t have to remember the address of the file, and you can browse through every folder. But if there is some other reason, you can get the package “file:// Schema in Safari” from the standard repo in Cydia.
I recently jailbroken my iphone 3G and I’ve followed all the directions for getting into SSH, whenever I put in my in the info at the winscp login screen my computer prompt says.. Network error: network refused. can anyone help me.
That means your iPhone does not have SSH enabled. If you installed OpenSSH correctly, then it is turned off by a switch in either SBsettings or Bossprefs. Enable SSH in one of those apps.