How To Change OpenSSH Root Password iOS 8 Jailbroken iPhone

You might heard a lot of stories now a days that sometimes people lost their iPhone or iPad and their devices fall into wrong hands, and if the person who found your device is a hacker then its a bad news for you, because he knows everything to play with your iPhone or iPad and even he can blackmailed you by demanding some money or anything else, the most important thing on your iOS device is the Root password, as the iOS hacker already knows that the default root password provided by the Apple is “alpine“, so here we found a method that how to change OpenSSH Root Password iOS 8 jailbroken iPhone.

If you have already updated your iPhone or other iOS device to iOS 8 or 8.x.x and also perform a jailbreak using Pangu or TaiG. And one thing more to know that SemiRestore 8 is also there to restore your iOS 8 device without losing device jailbreak. But you must take full safety measurements to protect your device from false hands, so you need to change your iPhone’s root password.

Why this OpenSSH root password is so crucial? Actually, to use Semirestore you need to install OpenSSH, but the problem is that once you have OpenSSH on your jailbroken device somebody could get access to your device remotely and that’s why you need to change the root password.

Steps To Change OpenSSH Root Password iOS 8 Jailbroken iPhone:

Follow these simple instructions to change OpenSSH Root Password iOS 8 jailbroken iPhone:

• If MobileTerminal app is not installed on your device, then open Cydia and search MobileTerminal, once it seems, just install the app and reboot your device

• Launch the MobileTerminal app and type su at command prompt and tap return

• You’ll be prompted to enter existing password “alpine” by default, type password “alpine” without quotes and then tap return.

• Now you are going to change your iPhone root password. At prompt type passwd and just hit return. Ensure that you type the word passwd

• Now type new password whatever you want and tap return

• You have to enter this new password again. Do it and just hit return

Done! You’ve changed the default root password of your iPhone successfully. Please remember this new password.

You also have to change the mobile user password, it is basically a regular user account on iPhone. To change mobile user password apply these steps:

• At command prompt type passwd mobile and tap return key

• You have enter new password two times. Enter new password twice when asked

• Now quite MobileTerminal app

Some people change their device password using OpenSSH, but we recommend this approach where no computer is required.