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Originally Posted by geekmaster
Does it work when you use only the first 8 characters (fionaXXX with 3 hex digits)? Standard default root passwords use a DES hash (which allows you to type extra random characters past 8, but they are ignored).
Is it the standard fionaXXX as shown on the "kindle password" web page after you supply your serial number (all uppercase)?
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You are right - 8 characters fionaXXX password from webpage works.
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Originally Posted by knc1
Would you post your /etc/shadow file somewhere we can look at it?
Did you use the update file posted by Amazon?
If so we can look in it to see if it patches /etc/shadow.
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I used the 4.1.0 update file posted by Amazon.
The content of shadow:
http://pastebin.com/kE8ggCQQ