Setting password in iPhone 1.1.3

For some reason the utility for changing the password in iPhone 1.1.3 is broken. You cannot use passwd to change password or you will have to restore the system. I found a great workaround online which uses perl.

perl -e 'print crypt("PASSWORD", "XX")."\n"'

Simply replace "PASSWORD" and the two character hash "XX". Then, take the resulting hash and replace the "alpine" password hash in /etc/master.passwd for both "root" and "mobile".