{"id":1311,"date":"2012-11-08T12:50:37","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T12:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.xctechs.com\/vlogs\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2012-11-08T12:50:37","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T12:50:37","slug":"change-ssh-password-for-apple-tv-2-with-nito-installer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/?p=1311","title":{"rendered":"Change SSH Password for Apple TV 2 with nito Installer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You\u00a0wouldn&#8217;t\u00a0leave your wireless internet connection password to the default. so why leave your Apple TV 2 open to security hazards? The default password on any jailbroken Apple device is always \u201calpine\u201d (<em>without quotations<\/em>) and hackers know that. Now there have not been any reports of people\u2019s network security being put at risk because of their Apple TV, but Changing your Apple TV 2 SSH Password is never a bad idea.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CHANGE SSH PASSWORD FOR APPLE TV 2 WITH NITO INSTALLER<br \/>\n<em>for (Mac Only )<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Requirements<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jailbroken Apple TV 2<br \/>\n(<em>Connected to TV and Plugged into Network<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jailbreak-apple-tv.googlecode.com\/files\/nitoInstaller.zip\" target=\"_blank\">nito Installer Application<\/a>\u00a0for Mac<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong>: Launch the \u201cnito Installer.app\u201d software application on your Mac computer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1312\" title=\"Screen-Shot-2012-11-06-at-11.02.04-PM\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.xctechs.com\/vlogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot-2012-11-06-at-11.02.04-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"362\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot-2012-11-06-at-11.02.04-PM.jpg 362w, https:\/\/xctechs.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot-2012-11-06-at-11.02.04-PM-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>2<\/strong>: Select your desired Apple TV 2 device from the \u201cChoose Apple TV\u201d\u00a0drop-down\u00a0menu.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1313\" title=\"Screen-Shot-2012-11-06-at-11.02.11-PM\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.xctechs.com\/vlogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot-2012-11-06-at-11.02.11-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"96\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>3<\/strong>: Verify that your device IP Address is specified in the lower left corner of the application window.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1315\" title=\"Screen-Shot-2012-11-06-at-11.02\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.xctechs.com\/vlogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot-2012-11-06-at-11.02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"362\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot-2012-11-06-at-11.02.jpg 362w, https:\/\/xctechs.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot-2012-11-06-at-11.02-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>4<\/strong>: Click on the \u201cAdvanced\u201d menu at the top of your screen and click on the \u201cChange SSH Password\u2026\u201d option.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1317\" title=\"Screen-Shot-2012-11-06-at-11.02\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.xctechs.com\/vlogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot-2012-11-06-at-11.02.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>5<\/strong>: Enter your desired new SSH Password when prompted then press the \u201cOK\u201d button. Be<em>\u00a0sure<\/em>\u00a0<em>to remember<\/em>\u00a0what it is as you won\u2019t be able to get back into your device without factory resetting it if you forget.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1318\" title=\"Screen-Shot-2012-11-06-at-11.03\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.xctechs.com\/vlogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot-2012-11-06-at-11.03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot-2012-11-06-at-11.03.jpg 475w, https:\/\/xctechs.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot-2012-11-06-at-11.03-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>6<\/strong>: That\u2019s it, you\u2019re down. You can now Quit the nito Installer application for Apple TV 2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congratulations<\/strong>!\u00a0You&#8217;ve\u00a0now secured your Apple TV 2 very well simply by changing your SSH Password to something less obvious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u00a0wouldn&#8217;t\u00a0leave your wireless internet connection password to the default. so why leave your Apple TV 2 open to security hazards? The default password on any jailbroken Apple device is always \u201calpine\u201d (without quotations) and hackers know that. Now there have not been any reports of people\u2019s network security being put at risk because of their &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[157,759,164,763,275,24,301,32,364,365,42,371,376,377,437,35,14],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","tag-app","tag-appletv2","tag-atv2","tag-blog","tag-installer","tag-jailbreak","tag-jailbroken","tag-mac","tag-nito","tag-nitoinstaller","tag-nitotv","tag-openssh","tag-pass","tag-password","tag-secure","tag-ssh","tag-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}