1.1.2 root password

Another finding: Apple removed the root password in 1.1.2.

I do not think they truly believe that an effective measure. It's innocuous. It's only a risk if you run SSH and if you run SSH, it like that you will install a new one, so why bother removing it.

So when installing SSH the new packaging will need to add a password to root, or copy from the "mobile" user, that is still "alpine".


UPDATE:
my bad. For some reason the file I've retrieved from the unencrypted image showed it, but uppon examining the file on 1.1.2 after an upgrade it has a password.

well you can install mobile terminal and use it to change the password.

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Originally Posted by NotFound

well you can install mobile terminal and use it to change the password.

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Running "vi" on the mobile-terminal is hard! and there is no passwd. Better to replace the file during "jailbreak".

root still has a password

Code:

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% egrep "^root" Oktoberfest3B48b.UserBundle/private/etc/master.passwd
root:/smx7MYTQIi2M:0:0::0:0:System Administrator:/var/root:/bin/sh

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Originally Posted by aviegas

Running "vi" on the mobile-terminal is hard! and there is no passwd. Better to replace the file during "jailbreak".

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What are you talking about??? With SSH enabled, you can easily change the root and mobile password using pwd.

Loaded 1 password hash (Traditional DES [64/64 BS])
alpine (root)
guesses: 1 time: 0:00:00:00 100% (2) c/s: 160575 trying: adi - buffalo