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HOW TO: RESET YOUR SSH PASSWORD ON YOUR IPHONE AND IPOD TOUCH!

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Uploaded by on Dec 26, 2009

Hey youtube. This video will show you how to reset your SSH Password to alpine. If you changed it in fear of the Rick Roll Worm or any other hackers, and forgot your password, you can reset it back to alpine.

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You will need iFile. To get iFile open Cydia and add http://repo.beyouriphone.com. Inside the repo scroll down and find iFile. Download and install.

1) Open Cydia and add the source: http://repo.beyouriphone.com

2) Go to the be your iphone repo and scroll down to iFile. Download and install.

3) Open ifile and navigate to /Private/etc

4) Scroll down and open master.passwrd. Click edit and scroll up to root:




5) Type this in exactly as I have it: /smx7MYTQIi2M

6) Click save and close out of iFile

7) Your password is back to alpine


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  • Do you need to delete the letters and numbers already in there?

  • @F4113NK1D what do you mean?

  • it isnt working for me :( terminal says incorrect password

  • @bdaboy100 are you typing it in correctly?

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  • I need to be logged in as root to read/write the master.passwd file. That must be why it is totally blank. Any suggestions?

  • My master.passwd file is totally blank ....

  • i doesnt work for me help me plz i accidently made a mistake on mobile i enter that in as the smx and i did the same for root but i dont know wat to do know plz help

  • YOU SAVED MY LIFE

  • Great video man! You saved my life!

  • THANK YOU SO MUCH

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    Thx for you time and effort.

    Helped me out a lot in Mexico

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  • Very nice video also nice voice and loud and every step was so clear so thanks a lot !!

  • Sweet.....It worked!!!

    I had /smx7MYTQIi2M where mobile was at so all i did was copy and replace the text next to root...Thanks

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