Remember I promised I’d introduce u to the many uses of having SSH and BSD installed on your iPhone. Here’s the first of a bunch of tips and hacks that will make your iPhone experience a lot less frustrating.

The bug:

On 1.1.4 firmware(and possibly 1.1.3), for some iPhone setups, after you log into a website from Safari, when you get back after having closed Safari, it’ll keep ask you to login.

This gets quickly extremely frustrating, and, as you suspect, it’s a bug.

The solution:

Step 1. Use Terminal.app or putty to SSH onto your iPhone. Read more about how to do this over here (remember, the iPhone root password is usually “alpine” ).

Step 2. On your iPhone, run the following commands:


chmod 777 /var/mobile/Library/Cookies/
chmod 666 /var/mobile/Library/Cookies/*

Voila, it should work now.

As an alternative to Step 2 some people have reported that the following is cleaner and more effective(I didn’t test it, the first method works out for me):

chown -R mobile /var/mobile/

PS – here’s a video of doing this. I must mention that the chown -R version that u see right above is superior to changing manually the 2 files in the video.