Comments on: iPhone SSH client roundup

By: iPoon

iPoon — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:46:10 +0000

kill a process?

ps -ef | grep
(wait for output)
kill

just for that guy who doesn’t know how not to use the ctrl button

By: george

george — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:55:38 +0000

Nokia n810 FTW

By: Ross Snider

Ross Snider — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:09:42 +0000

@#2

The hacking component of this entry is compiling widely available code and selling it for $5 to any sucker who would take hackaday’s “why not give it a try” advice.

By: Per-Erik Broz

Per-Erik Broz — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:34:39 +0000

More of these apps should be available outside the US store. How difficult can it be to put them on european stores and earn more?

Please iPhone developers :)

And please bring me a Wardriving app. The wificard and GPS is there…

By: Alexandre Gauthier

Alexandre Gauthier — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:07:12 +0000

None of these come close to using mobileterminal (http://code.google.com/p/mobileterminal/) on a Jailbroken iPhone, in my humble opinion, but it's always nice to have a backup should jailbreaking backfire.

By: sim-sam

sim-sam — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:52:39 +0000

If you jailbreak you get can install OpenSSH through Cydia. Using ssh is the only way I know of to put on your NES roms :D. The emulator, of course, couldn’t be easier to install.

By: dbr

dbr — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:41:01 +0000

zish:
> Yeah. I'll hold out on the iPhone until I can install software on it myself (without iTunes or Jailbreaking)

Just Jailbreak the thing. It's trivial to do (on 1.1.4 you launch an application and click a button, with v2 there's a step-by-step walk-through in the PwnageTool application, and I think there's a "QuickPwn" thing which is single-click)

> Why can't I just use OpenSSH or PuTTY

If you jailbreak, you can! It has a full terminal (zsh by default) with the regular openssh client. You can also install the gcc-toolchain thing and compile whatever command line application you want, or just use one of the many native-iPhone SSH clients reviewed here..

I have to agree with your distain of the iTunes App Store

mklebel/"I can't kill a command with ctrl c or x. I have yet to find a ash client for the iPhone that can do this":

In MobileTerm on 1.1.4/Jailbreak, you press ctrl by doing a stroke-gesture down-and-right. then type c to do "ctrl+c".. It's slightly unintuitive, but works fairly well once you discover it.. And judging by the iSSH screenshot, they have a Ctrl button..

By: andrew

andrew — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:11:30 +0000

I'm not your usual iphone user; after all my research into available and soon-available phones, though, it's the best of the bunch. Touch Diamond and Touch Pro have high res screens, but they're (significantly) smaller. Touch Pro's as thick as the old Treo 650. X1's in perma-delay. I *can* write apps for iphone (yes, jailbreaking, whoop-de-doo), and from a day-to-day point of view, the iPhone is only about a hundred times ahead of windows mobile. If Palm could ever get their heads out of their arses they might be able to win back one of their biggest fans, but sadly I don't think this will ever happen.

As far as VPN goes; the iphone has L2TP, PPTP and IPSec as standard; that's a pretty good list as far as I'm concerned. Tethering is my only real need that it doesn't have, but there are (crappy) workarounds, at least until someone manages to locate the entry points for the hidden SDP and HCI calls that would allow me to add profiles on my own.

All of that is not to mention the fact that since the iphone *is* the popular phone, I'm never far from whatever accessory I may need, and the 30-pin header is a great hacking opportunity for the device.

Evil? You call the iphone evil and not the shite that is windows mobile? I'm no fan of Apple, but the iPHone has a lot more right with it than it has wrong.

By: eggsy

eggsy — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:40:49 +0000

Did I miss the hacking component in this entry?

By: zish

zish — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:15:41 +0000

Yeah. I’ll hold out on the iPhone until I can install software on it myself (without iTunes or Jailbreaking). I need some things that the iPhone simply will probably never to (like OpenVPN).
Why can’t I just use OpenSSH or PuTTY, or myriad other free SSH client implementations? Oh yeah. Apple makes you pay to distribute software via iTunes.

Sorry for the rant, but the iPhone, while being a beautiful piece of engineering, is a very, VERY evil thing.

By: mklebel

mklebel — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:53:28 +0000

I can’t kill a command with ctrl c or x. I have yet to find a ash client for the iPhone that can do this. Is there another keystroke that can kill the command?