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Reputation: 25535

iOS: Issue shell commands to an IP address

I have an SSH app on my iPhone (this one) from which I can ssh into a server and issue shell commands. There is also an app called Fing which can discover devices connected to your network (not just the DNS-SD ones, all of them). My guess is that this is done by issueing traceroute and telnet requests to your router's IP (192.168.0.1) and with subsequent requests to other IP's discovered.

My question is, how do you issue a shell command to an IP address programmatically with iOS?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 639

Answers (2)

James Snook
James Snook

Reputation: 4093

You can an ssh library (you'll obviously need ssh details for the server) such as libssh2 or one of its ObjC wrappers such as NMSSH.

Upvotes: 1

deimus
deimus

Reputation: 9893

Have a look at tcptraceroute project. It is the implementation of traceroute using TCP packets.

You have to integrate it with your iOS project. I suppose it wont be a problem as its C based. Also it doesn't require to work with raw sockets as traceroute tool does. For using raw sockets in iOS you have to have a root permissions, so in this case tcptraceroute might be a solution for you.

Good luck

Upvotes: 0

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