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Oddbloke · 07-25-2013, 05:02 PM

Hi guys!

I've successfully jailbroken my K4 (wifi, not touch, no keyboard) and installed the usbNetwork, and configured it so that I can SSH to it over Wifi. So a BIG thanks to everyone's hard work in making this possible - the hack itself and all the notes people have written have been oustanding!

My intention is to use a number of jailbroken Kindles as displays around the house, to show mine and my wife's calendars, logs of missed phonecalls, and so on. I have a Linuxbox in the centre of it all doing the hard work, and I just need to get it sending commands to the Kindles.

I'd like to control the Kindles by telnet rather than ssh - I know it's not particularly secure, but it makes it much easier to write code for my Linuxbox server if I'm just sending Kindles commands via telnet. It's only my home network, so I'm not too concerned about security.

I've been unable to locate telnetd on my K4, and I've read rumours that some people have compiled statically-linked telnetd binaries to run on their Kindles instead. Is there anyone here who has done this? If so ... where did you get the binary from?

Thanks again, chaps!

07-25-2013, 05:02 PM	#1
Oddbloke Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2013 Device: K4 Wifi, no keyboard	telnetd on a K4 Hi guys! I've successfully jailbroken my K4 (wifi, not touch, no keyboard) and installed the usbNetwork, and configured it so that I can SSH to it over Wifi. So a BIG thanks to everyone's hard work in making this possible - the hack itself and all the notes people have written have been oustanding! My intention is to use a number of jailbroken Kindles as displays around the house, to show mine and my wife's calendars, logs of missed phonecalls, and so on. I have a Linuxbox in the centre of it all doing the hard work, and I just need to get it sending commands to the Kindles. I'd like to control the Kindles by telnet rather than ssh - I know it's not particularly secure, but it makes it much easier to write code for my Linuxbox server if I'm just sending Kindles commands via telnet. It's only my home network, so I'm not too concerned about security. I've been unable to locate telnetd on my K4, and I've read rumours that some people have compiled statically-linked telnetd binaries to run on their Kindles instead. Is there anyone here who has done this? If so ... where did you get the binary from? Thanks again, chaps!