ssh on iPhone

Brandon: instructions on tethering your iPhone are here:
http://cre.ations.net/blog/post/tether-your-iphone

Hubert: Thank you for your spam.

More importantly, I just saw that the iPhone Dev Wiki posted the following security notice regarding shell access:

Progress Report

Some folks have "raised concerns" (to stay polite) that we were not officially releasing the ssh/shell binaries with instructions. Well, there is a good reason to delay it until we have a proper nice secure packaging for it: unfortunately, it seems a lot of people are currently installing these binaries regardless of basic security measures.

Installing the AFC plist exploit and/or a ssh-shell access on your iPhone is really not a good idea if you don't take the security of your iPhone seriously. It is highly advised that, you:

1. disable the AFC plist exploit (the Services.plist one) when you don't use it
2. change the root's password, disallow root access on the iPhone and create a new account (hint: edit /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd).

Because right now, if you don't do this, you're just wide open to any kind of virus/botnet attacks.

Hacking is fun, but stay safe ;)
-- the dev team

Wow. Now that is just another awesome news about iPhone (sarcasm).

The thing is that it's firmware is not free software, yes it can be built on top of max os X, or other Unix, but do they distribute this modified version? Do they provide useful build system? No. They are not OpenMoko guys :P

I'm not going to buy iPhone, nor advise it to anyone, while OpenMoko will be ready in couple of weeks / months? I'll wait.

Any links to an Intel OS X binary of dropbear rather than having to download Apple dev tools and compile?

Dropbear has a client too - you should just be able to compile it up (or they may have already??). Of course first you'd need a terminal app for the iPhone - not sure if they've got that far yet. Good to see some progress though.

Another excellent Quick Reference summary from Erica. Saves a lot of time.

But as for thanking *Baby* Jesus, I thought the iPhone was the JesusPhone, so that would make BJ kinda sorta Steve, and Steve's no spring chicken.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6542481355742550486&hl=en-AU

(Mind you, I never under the trinity thing. Was it the two Steves + Bill Gates from which all creation sprung? I guess Silicon Valley bible classes aren't what they are in Kansas.)

brillant. purchasing concerns now addressed. next 5 paychecks earmarked.

class-dump as well as otool -vT do what you're looking for Emanuele...

Try to keep up ;)

Next step: compile a version of otool and nm that is able to read ARM Mach-O exe's, in order to begin understanding how the UI framework works :)

WHOA... If you can enable RemoteGateway on the ssh server, theoretically you could connect to an ad-hoc wifi connection with your laptop and then ssh to it using a a faux-socks proxy on the laptop client and tether to your EDGE network connection.

I am going to try that now...