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One of the powerful feature of iPhone is its Secure Shell (SSH) access. iPhoneOS is a trimmed version of Mac OSX. So it will accept basic shell commands like (ls, cd, rm etc...). If you are new to SSH visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell.

Requirements
1. Jailbroken or Cydia installed iPhone.
2. Wireless network access
3. PuTTY, WinSCP

How to connect
1. Open Cydia in iPhone (you must have access to internet)


2. Open search in Cydia and type openssh.


3. Select OpenSSH from results and click on install


Congratulations you have successfully installed OpenSSH in your iPhone and your phone is now ready to serve SSH access.

4. Download PuTTY from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

5. Find IP Address of iPhone from WiFi settings screen


6. Open PuTTY and enter the IP Address of your iPhone.


7. Accept the security alert (it will be asked only once)


8. Enter username root and password alpine. This is the default password for all iPhones


Bingo!! you are now connected via SSH.

You can also connect using WinSCP to access filesystem of your iPhone







You can now browse, copy, move, rename files using WinSCP.