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The app to use on the iPhone is called MobileTerminal and it’s available for
free in the Cydia store.

Once you have MobileTerminal installed, launch it and you should see a prompt
saying this or similar:

iPhoneName: ~ Mobile$

• At that prompt, type: passwd
• You’ll be prompted for the ‘old’ (current) password for the mobile
  user.  Enter this as the old password: alpine
• You’ll then be prompted to enter the new password – so just type in your
  desired new password.  Use good password principles if possible (long and
  stong).  You will not see characters appearing on the screen as you type –
  that’s normal, not a concern.
• You’ll then be prompted to re-enter the new password.  Do that.
• You should then be returned to the Mobile$ prompt that you started on when
  opening the MobileTerminal app.  There’s no success message to say the
  password was changed – but if you’re returned to the prompt and do not get an
  error, the change was successful.  And you’re done with change for the
  mobile account.
• The second primary admin account for the iPhone is called root – so now you
  need to change that as well.
• Type this to switch to the root user: login root
• You’ll be prompted for the root user’s current password.  Enter this:
  alpine
• Type this to start the password change routine again: passwd
• Enter the old password for root (it is ‘alpine’, same as for the mobile
  user) and enter your desired new password twice, just as you did for the mobile
  account