A little help from my new friends???

[macperry]

Hi All,

I spent the last 3 days learning all I could about jailbreaking my pristine new 3G. I decided to use pwnage 2.1 to jailbreak my 3G running ver2.1 of Apples firmware. The jailbreak went great, just REMEMBER to OPTION CLICK on the RESTORE button in iTunes at the very end of the process. I can now run NetShare and use the phone as a wireless modem. Unreal...just think of all the possibilities! Anyway, I can now load ANY program I want on the phone AND I figured out how to do it right from iTunes!!! Now the part I need HELP with: I CAN NOT ssh into the freakin phone! I can do anything else, but no ssh for me

I know the network is working (a whole other learning process...ask me) because I can surf and download with no problem. When I use Terminal to ssh into the phone, this is what I get:

Last login: Fri Nov 21 17:44:01 on ttys000
mobile-166-217-042-032:~ macperry$ ssh [email protected]
[email protected]'s password:
localhost:~ root#


I enter the correct password (alpine) and then I get the above. I have no earthly idea what the correct response is for that prompt

Can ANYONE PLEASE tell me what to do to ssh into my phone???

Thanks in advance...macperry

[cricketlang]

Welcome to MMi. we are glad to help. have you installed ssh on the phone yet? if not you can find it in cydia.

[Broomhead]

edit: What he said ^^^

[macperry]

I triple checked that ssh was installed. I used installer 4.0 to install openssh when I built the custom .ipsw

[cricketlang]

why are you using installer? installer sucks. use cydia. its way better. i have had nothing but problems with installer period. install it from cydia if you havent already. and also to let you know it takes a few tries to actually log in. i rarely get it on the first shot

[macperry]

i tried cydia, but the sources are fewer than installers, and i couldn't find it.

[cricketlang]

there are WAY more packages in cydia. WAYYYYYY more. install these sources and you will see. in cydia openssh is under the featured apps page.

Cydia Sources List « “iPhonewoot’s Hideout”

[macperry]

can u share the sites that are currently working please?

but the question still remains....why cant i ssh into the phone? why do i get that prompt in terminal? have you seen it before?

funny thing is i have this phone doing everything but taking out the garbage. it's just the principle of not being able to do that one last thing.

i forgot to say....ssh isn't the missing component. I think it's the bsd subsystem package that's missing. I looked in cydia AND installer, but neither one has it.

[cricketlang]

those sources are current just to let you know and if you want to just install a bunch at once install "cydia community sources" i cant help with terminal because i dont use macs and i have no idea how to use it. i use winscp and it works perfectly for me everytime.

[macperry]

Success!! One of my new buddies solved the problem. For all you Mac folks out there.....the choice of ssh client definitely MATTERS. I can share the info in a PM if you want it.

[Broomhead]

Its no secret...MAC FuGu--Wiki Guide

Welcome to MMi

[xogen]

Last login: Fri Nov 21 17:44:01 on ttys000
mobile-166-217-042-032:~ macperry$ ssh [email protected]
[email protected]'s password:
localhost:~ root#

There is no problem. That last line says that your are logged in at the device (localhost as the root user (root#) and are in the root users home directory (~). This is the shell prompt and is waiting for commands.