Thursday, January 16, 2014

ipeq activation issues

If you're encountering problems during activation (well, they only happen if you firstly try to use ipeq without license), then try removing the /var/mobile/Library/Application Support/ipEQ directory.

Why? I'm also not quite sure about it.
ipEQ creates this directory (license file will be stored later in it), obviously as mobile:mobile (because Music.app runs as mobile). However, if the server returns a "No payment" error, nothing will be stored in it and the user may try to quit Music.app. Then somehow this directory becomes root:wheel. I don't know why exactly this is happening, but it might be kind of a security feature in iOS to chown suspicious, empty directories to root.



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