Marius van Witzenburg » iPhone

How to paste into password fields in mobile Safari on your iPhone

mariusvw — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:01:09 +0000

On some sites its not possible to paste a password in a password field. Which sucks! Well this is a simple work around.

In this example I use Facebook.

On this login screen you can bring up the paste button but it is not pasting anything at all.

It becomes blue, nothing happens.

The solution, simply type some characters into the field. And tap hold until you see the menu. There press Select All.

Now you have the bogus password selected and will be able to paste your real password over the bogus one.

You can login now

How to configure VPN on your FRITZ!Box 7340

mariusvw — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:54:28 +0000

FRITZ!Box

Setup the VPN settings on the FRITZ!Box with a VPN config file.

Save the content below to a file named vpn.cfg

vpncfg {
        connections {
                enabled = yes;
                conn_type = conntype_user;
                name = "YOUR_MAIL_ADDRESS";
                always_renew = no;
                reject_not_encrypted = no;
                dont_filter_netbios = yes;
                localip = 0.0.0.0;
                local_virtualip = 0.0.0.0;
                remoteip = 0.0.0.0;
                remote_virtualip = VPN_CLIENT_IP;
                remoteid {
                        key_id = "YOUR_MAIL_ADDRESS";
                }
                mode = phase1_mode_aggressive;
                phase1ss = "all/all/all";
                keytype = connkeytype_pre_shared;
                key = "YOUR_SHARED_PASSWORD";
                cert_do_server_auth = no;
                use_nat_t = yes;
                use_xauth = yes;
                use_cfgmode = no;
                xauth {
                        valid = yes;
                        username = "YOUR_USERNAME";
                        passwd = "YOUR_PASSWORD";
                }
                phase2localid {
                        ipnet {
                                ipaddr = 0.0.0.0;
                                mask = 0.0.0.0;
                        }
                }
                phase2remoteid {
                        ipaddr = VPN_CLIENT_IP;
                }
                phase2ss = "esp-all-all/ah-none/comp-all/no-pfs";
                accesslist = "permit ip any VPN_CLIENT_IP 255.255.255.255";
        }
        ike_forward_rules = "udp 0.0.0.0:500 0.0.0.0:500", "udp 0.0.0.0:4500 0.0.0.0:4500";
}

Replace the below values with the right settings for your network, I'll describe it with the default router values.

YOUR_MAIL_ADDRESS, replace this with your mail address.
VPN_CLIENT_IP, replace this with something like 192.168.178.201.
YOUR_SHARED_PASSWORD, replace this with your own preferred shared password.
YOUR_USERNAME, replace this with your VPN username, use [a-z] only.
YOUR_PASSWORD, replace this with your VPN password, mind quote signs!

This configuration has been tested on iOS and Mac OS X, check the manuals below to configure your client.

iPhone shell account passwords

mariusvw — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 11:52:25 +0000

The root and mobile account on an iPhone has an default password which might become handy when you jailbreaked your iPhone

The password for root is "alpine" and the password for "mobile" is "dottie".

Now you know!

How to restore your iPhone when its bricked with DFU mode

mariusvw — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:36:45 +0000

Here are some simple steps I use to restore friends their iPhones.

Connect your iPhone to your computer.
Turn of your iPhone by holding the power button
Wait for your iPhone to completely shutdown
Hold POWER and HOME for 10 seconds
Release POWER but keep holding HOME
iTunes should now detect your iPhone in DFU mode

Note, in case you do a redsn0w jailbreak, you might need to disconnect press power and reconnect the iPhone to make it work (do this quickly).