OpenSSH, USB instead of WiFi

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January 29th, 2009 by Mojtaba

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Now you can SSH to your iPhone via USB cable instead of using WiFi connection. (Windows only)

Requirements

Jail-broken iPhone / iPod Touch
WinSCP
iTunnel

On the iPhone

Connect your iPhone to the internet (EDGE/3G or WiFi)
Open Cyida in iPhone.
Go to Networking.
Select OpenSSH and install it.
Wait for Cydia to download the package and complete the installation.

On your PC

Connect your iPhone to PC by USB cable
Download iTunnel (Zip Format ~600KB)
Once downloaded extract it somewhere
Run “start_ssh_tunnel.cmd”
Open WinSCP
Set the parameters
- Hostname: 127.0.0.1
- Port Number: 22
- User Name: root
- Password: alpine
- Protocol: SFTP
Click on Login.
Enjoy browsing iPhone file system!

16 Responses

Cher writes:
June 12th, 2011 at 12:13 PM

Didn’t work on my iPhone 4 (4.3.3). Looks like fr334rtsiT is right. The more current versions of iTunes (mine is 10)’ block this route. Shame.

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bret writes:
March 31st, 2011 at 1:30 AM

can you do this over usb or is wi-fi needed

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Darto KLoning writes:
March 7th, 2011 at 6:27 AM

it’s more easy use DiskAid.

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- sam writes:
  April 25th, 2011 at 10:29 AM
  
  I LOVE YOU!!!! =)
  
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kavinda writes:
November 18th, 2010 at 5:18 PM

it work i pod touch????

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- Mojtaba writes:
  November 23rd, 2010 at 6:01 PM
  
  @kavinda: yes it works
  
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alex writes:
October 19th, 2010 at 4:21 PM

hey no matter what i use i cant ssh into my ipod touch i have tried like a hundred things and they dont work do you know why?
thanks

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free downloadable movies writes:
April 20th, 2010 at 5:26 AM

hiya Thanks for a super post. Noted and come by shortly. bye

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Ron writes:
January 7th, 2010 at 11:10 PM

once i click login i am getting an error message saying “software casued connection abort”
what did i do wrong?
thanks

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fr334rtsiT writes:
June 27th, 2009 at 10:40 PM

Well as far as I can tell, This whole process of Itunel and WINscp is useful, but the 3.0 version with Itunes 8.2 disable the ssh via usb. There’s a way to make it work, but its way easier if you download DiskAid 3.0 and just install it, connect Iphone or ipod touch, any version, including 3.0, and will be that fast.

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Mark Anthony writes:
June 24th, 2009 at 5:38 PM

Can you do this process using the new 3.0 os for iphone 3g? Before I upgraded my phone it worked just fine but after I did this after i upgraded, it gave me an error. Can anyone help me!!

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iphone writes:
June 24th, 2009 at 3:51 PM

it didnt help me i did everything as it said it opened the thing and whaty should i do there i am waiting for an answer written by mail my mail is szymonnowak452@gmail.com

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Mojtaba writes:
June 24th, 2009 at 5:46 PM

@Mark- The method above not tested with iPhone OS 3.0.

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fresh writes:
June 18th, 2009 at 6:15 PM

Hi , i have a jailbroken iphone 3g 2.2.1 with baseband 4.26.08 and i’m unable to ssh into my phone. I was able to till i updated to 3.0 beta 5 and den back to 2.2.1. What could be the problem?

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MyTouch writes:
June 13th, 2009 at 11:14 AM

Thanks a lot, this worked out really smooth! Awesome! Thanks a lot!

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Michael Seth writes:
May 21st, 2009 at 1:05 AM

I searched for hours to find a way to ssh my iPhone. I had winscp downloaded and no one told me how to use it. This worked in SECONDS. Thank you.

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