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Run (Alpine) Linux on your ios device (not jailbreak)??!!??!!??!!
Just installed a second ago, I've done nothing more than pwd and ls and apk info, and other poke around curious commands,
so appears as its alpine you install stuff from repo via apk (alpine package keeper)
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ish-shell/id1436902243
https://github.com/ish-app/ish
So it's a VM, of sorts? such that the /root folder is not the actual root.
Pretty cool
Anyone else used this??? I don't actually know now what I want to install yet but the mind sort of boggles as to what would or wouldn't be possible
neovim?
npm?
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nmap 😈
I tried to load python and it tried but failed.
Then I tried ‘cat > afile’ and started adding lines but discover I had no keys to escape the cat session… the app settings show enabling back tick for escape but I can’t find a back tick on the iPhone keyboard.
Much better to play on an iPad with a real keyboard to see what’s possible.
yeah you're right, but i did find backtick, on the numbers screen press and hold single quote and three options appear
what did you try in order to (try to) get python? that would be amazing
It's certainly nice to play with it but the real fun was back in the untethered jailbreak times where loads of incredible useful apps and utilities were available.
Full access to my own files and unlimited device access could made a "pro device" out of the iDevice.
Apple has included quite a few of these into iOS over the years but unfortunately we're not there yet.
My #1 wish would be to clearly separate iPhone from iPad OS and make the iPad a device that is closer to a desktop system like Windows tablets have been since years.
Yes, the app looks like a virtual environment giving you just as much access as iOS permits.
Any reason not to use an SSH client to connect to a real machine and work there?
ok elliot
you don't run a jailbroken device anymore?
I think the reason is just because
,,, i mean, its another option albeit sandboxed, and probably therefore SSH out to do things found to not be possible, but it'll be interesting to explore what is possible, even just the fact that you'd be running openSSH in an alpine VM is kind of satisfying. and being able to do stuff offline and only with the ipad around obviously.
apk add python3 worked for me
installed 3.9.16 , i don't know if that's alpine or ish that's running a little behind what's available on other distros, still though, good enough for a play
fwiw, iVim has some nice shell features and even an SSH client and ability to run python and Lua commands. It has some pretty high level integration with the file system as well.
thank you! i will give it a spin as well
Another fun discovery.
The iOS shortcuts app can run SSH commands so you can make shortcuts that do things on your remote boxes and return the stdout to files or as input to other commands, etc.
Pretty fun, though of little practical use to me anymore. But not too many years ago I would have used this all the time.
for what its worth, both apk add vim, and apk add neovim work
good tip thank you!
OK, that was fun. openssh works, including using public/private key authentication.
nmap needs a hacky workaround and doesn't work quite right, but I didn't expect it to work at all.
very cool
You can mount iOS file provider folders as well. Example:
mount -t ios . /mntYou'll get a file browser to select a folder.
is this the hack of add and switch user or something else? i got the cannot create AF_NETLINK socket error that is issue #166 on the ish github, haven't tried the suggestion yet
wow
ok but basic question, where the hell is up arrow on this screenkeyboard?
yeah mounting worked, that's brilliant, stays mounted when exiting ish and re running, this could get really interesting.
Swipe the direction you need on the icon that looks like four arrows pointing to compass directions. Hold the slide for repeating keystrokes.
The best environment for me has been A-Shell because it integrates with the IOS file system directories that are accessible and also have a “Cut and Paste” text feature that works between a Vi session and other IOS text editors like Textastic or the one in Mozaic.
You can copy all text in a vi session in a-shell with this “ed” command:
:%y +
Note: "+" is the clipboard A-shell
in Mozaic editor use Cmd-V to paste the text into a editor window.
I like to increase the text size in A-Shell and change foreground/background colors.
Foreground/Background and Font:
$ config -f white -b black -s 30
More details at:
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Accessing_the_system_clipboard
There's a tutorial on the GitHub site. That should cover it. You'll get a lot of error messages first but it should eventually do the scan.
brilliant thank you
that's good to know. you saw @wim's tip about mounting in ish? which also then gives us those accessible directories
yeah vi/vim clipboard has always been that same ever so slight faff even on desktop but was always just a case of learning the commands. y for yank p for paste (/put). i really like nvim even though i only know a tiny amount of the commands
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