You might heard this news from many people that they have lost their iPhone or iPad and their device fall into wrong hands but its a bad news if its found by a hacker, 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 iPhone root password using MTerminal.
The fact is that, the most well-known terminal emulator for iOS has not been updated to support the latest devices running iOS 8. But the good news is, that an another free terminal emulator called MTerminal is available on Cydia, which is an lightweight alternative to Mobile Terminal designed by the developer lordscotland, to support iOS 8 and iOS flagship devices.
If you already perform a jailbreak with latest jailbreak tool TaiG, then it is very excellent idea to change your device Root password to stop somebody with harmful intention from your device root level access.
After the hacker gained access to the jailbroken phones with unchanged root passwords and SSH enabled, they can do anything like they can send text messages from your number, use it to call or record your calls, and actually whatever they want, even use it for their hacking activities!
How To Change iPhone Root Password Using MTerminal
Among the leading features of MTerminal is the tap zones (gesture based commands) which let you to perform various tasks such as use page up/page down, use control keys, paste, use full-screen mode etc.
To prevent any iOS hacker to use your iPhone or iPad for wrong purpose you can stick to following easy steps to change your jailbroken iPhone root password:
- If MTerminal app is not installed on your device, then open Cydia and search MTerminal when appear then install the app, and just reboot your device
- Launch the MTerminal 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 the 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
OK you’ve changed iPhone root password successfully. Please remember this new password.
