How To: connect to the iPhone via SSH (Mac)

These are the steps to follow to connect your Mac to your iPhone via SSH using Cyberduck:

• install OpenSSH from Cydia
• download Cyberduck here
• when you run Cyberduck, this dialog appears:

• click the Open Connection button
• select SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) from the combo-box
• type the IP address into the Server field
• type root into the Username field
• type alpine into the Password field

• click on Connect and wait until the connection to your iPhone is established..
• ..done! Now a dialog will show up: you can drag & drop files, rename them and make other files operations as if you are using Finder..

8 Comments on "How To: connect to the iPhone via SSH (Mac)"

1. 

   iPhoneRuler August 19, 2010 at 11:42 am ·

   you should type “root” in the Username field and “alpine” (if you didn’t change it) in the Password field..

2. 

   sandeep sagar September 10, 2011 at 2:19 pm ·

   my iPhone is not jailbroken..
   can i still install your valuable themes..
   if i can, then what ip address should i enter in the server field?

3. 

   iPhoneRuler September 12, 2011 at 6:34 am ·

   @sandeep sagar
   sorry, you can’t..

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