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Originally Posted by wlaf
I'm using windows with putty, but I have access to linux (ubuntu and centos) and I know my root password on the system. But I don't know the root password for kindle! I thouthght it is fiona828b or fiona3a76, but none woked for me.
Btw, now I'm now connected to serial via putty and I'm trying to find password from serial number:
http://members.ping.de/~sven/kindle.html
But It seems that it doesn't work! :-( |
Default root passwords only have 3 hex digits (8 characters total). Because they are DES hashes, you can type extra characters if you want to and they just get ignored.
If you use the passwd command to change the password, then it gets stored as a salted MD5 hash, which uses all the characters you types (even if you changed it back to a fiona password).
Did you also try the mario password? Some computers need that instead...