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With the AppleTV2 being Jailbroken on the iOS 5.0 and the iOS 5.1.1 firmware, thanks to the Dream Team. It is no questions that the Jailbreaking Community has grown in numbers. Due to the increase in Jailbroken iOS devices and due to the fact that there are a lot of people new to the Jailbreaking scene. XCtechs team thought it would be a good idea to remind its readers to change their SSH (root) password to their AppleTV 2. Now a question I am sure you are wondering is “why would you want to change your SSH password, and what is an SSH password?”
Well, when you Jailbreak your AppleTV 2/ATV2, or any iOS device for that matter, you are gaining root access over the entire iOS filesystem. By default your iOS device protects itself from being tampered with by a root user using password protection. The problem is, everyone has the same root password – “alpine”. Which means hackers, are free to gain full root access to your iOS device if they please (this actually happened awhile back). As this is very big threat to your security, we are going to show you how to change your AppleTV 2’, root password on the iOS 5.0 or iOS 5.1.1 firmware.
Note: This method will work on any firmware version and any iOS device. On MAC/Ubuntu you can use Terminal and Windows you need to download PuTTY..
Change SSH Password AppleTV 2
1st command: su root
(press return)
2nd command: alpine
(press return)
3rd command: passwd
(press return)
Now you are going to need to type a password that you will remember (you won’t see any characters displayed when you type). Once you are done press return. You will then need to re-type the password and press return once again.
4th command: exit
(press return)
Congratulations! You have now just changed two passwords that prevent hackers from gaining unauthorized access to your AppleTV 2. If you have any questions or concerns please leave them in the comments section below…
How do you know you have Mobile Terminal installed??
sorry my friend that is a typo, it should say MAC or Ubuntu Terminal, or PuTTY for windows