How To: connect to the iPhone via SSH (Win)
These are the steps to follow to connect your Windows PC to your iPhone via SSH using WinSCP:
- install OpenSSH from Cydia
- download WinSCP here
- when the installation is completed, this login dialog will appear:

- go to Settings->WiFi in your iPhone, choose your connection and tap the blue arrow to get the iPhone IP address
- type the IP address into the Host name field
- type root into the User name field
- type alpine into the Password field
- click on the Login button
- a msgbox will appear, click Yes and wait until the PC establishes a connection to your iPhone..
- ..done! Now a dialog will show up: the right panel displays the folders of the iPhone, the left one the folders of your PC.. now you can drag & drop files, rename them and make other files operations as if you are using Explorer..
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