1. You will need to have a jailbroke iPhone or iPod Touch in order to SSH into your iPhone or iPod Touch. For more information on Jailbreaking, please see our F.A.Q. Page.

2. When you jailbreak your iPhone/iPod Touch, the Cydia application will be added to your SpringBoard with the rest of your applications. You will want to go into Cydia and search for the OpenSSH application. If it is not already installed, you will need to install it.

3. Then you will need some type of SSH client installed on your computer. WinSCP is great for PCs. Macs come with openssh but if you’d like some alternatives check here.

4. To sign into the iPhone, the Host Name is the iPhone’s IP address which you can find by going into your Settings application on your iPhone (or iPod Touch) and then into the Wi-fi option, click on the little arrow next to the Wi-Fi you are connected to and find the IP address. The username is root and password is alpine (no capitals). Don’t worry about the Private key file, you don’t need to put anything there.

5. On an iPhone 3GS, you will need to change the File Protocol to SCP. The default is most likely SFTP. Just select the arrow next to the option and select SCP.

6. Hit login.

Helpful Hints:
- The first time you connect it takes longer than usual, about 30 full seconds.
- Your iPhone must stay turned on, so disable autolock
- Your iPhone and computer must be on the same network, ssh connects via wifi on the iPhone.

Nate reported that after jailbreaking it (1,1,4), Installer.app thought OpenSSH was still installed, even though it no longer was, and that he couldn’t uninstall it (main script execution failure). I have released an update to OpenSSH that anyone with this issue can update to. If you update to it before you jailbreak your 1.1.4 iPhone, then you should be able to uninstall it ok, via Installer.app, even though it’s gone, as it will now ignore the error it gets when it tries to stop the now-missing daemon. You can then simply reinstall it. If you already jailbroke it and can’t uninstall it, just upgrade to the new version and you’re all set to go. Nate says the root password is still “alpine”.

You can update OpenSSH even if you are not going to upgrade to 1.1.4. However, if you are going to upgrade (which is not suggested quite yet…Zibri sounds like he will have a jailbreak available in the next day or so)…you will want to update OpenSSH to version 4.6p1-2 before you do so.