Comments on: How to login into your iPhone via SSH with no password (but with key authentification)

By: twiphone.com

twiphone.com — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:35:57 +0000

@sergani, it did work on my 3.01 3GS that time. I am not sure if
“scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub root@10.0.1.3:.ssh/authorized_keys”
will work on your system. Make sure your public key “id_rsa.pub” exists on your PC/Laptop (try: cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub)

By: Sergani

Sergani — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:36:38 +0000

Hi all,
I tried the mentioned steps, and i’m not able to login without a password prompt unfortunately.
i use linux, fedora. and my iphone is a 3GS v 3.0.1
any help?
thx!

By: Charly

Charly — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:44:18 +0000

Thanks Twiphone,
I’ve used a wrong file key, your infos are exacts!

Now run fine.

Sorry.

By: Twiphone

Twiphone — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:02:37 +0000

Please re-read the article.

Did you change the “sshd_config” by using:

echo AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys >> /private/etc/ssh/sshd_config

Then, being on the MAC please upload your public key using (10.0.1.3 should be changed to the IP of your phone):
scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub root@10.0.1.3:.ssh/authorized_keys

Regards
TwiPhone

By: Charly

Charly — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:57:18 +0000

I’ve used the root user, but don’t work…
on iPhone:

Charly:~ root# ls -la ~/.ssh
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 136 Aug 25 17:33 ./
drwxr-x— 5 root wheel 204 Aug 25 17:18 ../
-rw——- 1 root wheel 1675 Aug 25 17:19 authorized_keys

Charly:~ root# ls -la /private/etc/ssh
total 156
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 374 Aug 1 22:38 ./
drwxr-xr-x 13 root wheel 884 Aug 1 22:37 ../
-rw-r–r– 1 root wheel 125811 May 5 08:58 moduli
-rw-r–r– 1 root wheel 1526 Jan 4 2008 ssh_config
-rw——- 1 root wheel 668 Aug 1 22:38 ssh_host_dsa_key
-rw-r–r– 1 root wheel 590 Aug 1 22:38 ssh_host_dsa_key.pub
-rw——- 1 root wheel 963 Aug 1 22:38 ssh_host_key
-rw-r–r– 1 root wheel 627 Aug 1 22:38 ssh_host_key.pub
-rw——- 1 root wheel 1679 Aug 1 22:38 ssh_host_rsa_key
-rw-r–r– 1 root wheel 382 Aug 1 22:38 ssh_host_rsa_key.pub
-rw-r–r– 1 root wheel 3279 Aug 25 17:31 sshd_config

Charly:~ root# cat /private/etc/ssh/sshd_config
…
…
AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys

I’ve try to change .ssh/authorized_keys in /var/root/.ssh/authorized_key but again none.
Any hint?

By: twiphone

twiphone — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:31:03 +0000

dkk, are you using an admin user on your Mac?

By: dkk

dkk — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:11:11 +0000

on step (5) i get the message “permission denied”

By: lvyile

lvyile — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 03:21:34 +0000

thanks so much, and pls let write this topic in my own
blog~
: )