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Old 06-25-2019, 12:30 AM   #1
AwedJob
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Join Date: Jun 2019
Location: St. Paul, MN
Device: K3W, K4, PW2
My Route to Root

A simple thread to chronicle my adventures in gaining root access to my K3W.

On My K3W:
  • jailbreak
  • ss
  • mkk
  • KUAL
  • gawk
  • helper
  • lpad
  • usbNetwork
  • mrinstaller

Progress:
  • added grayscale PNGs for screensavers
  • Manual IPV4 IP 192.168.2.1
  • ping'd the K3W from Mac OS X, 192.168.2.2
  • ssh 192.168.2.2 failed multiple attempts
  • paired key set up & ssh root@192.168.2.2 yields
    Quote:
    Welcome to Kindle!
    then fails
  • Obtained root PW and recovery PW via kindletool

I'm very happy with my progress. I spend a couple of hours on it each night after work. I am currently stumped as to why I can't gain ssh access via the usbNetwork connection. I have generated and deleted and regenerated key pairs many times on both Linux and OS X systems to ssh into the K3W.

I can ssh from my Mac to my Linux box and vice versa. I have disabled the Network Manager in Linux and modified the sshd_config file on the Mac. My guess is that I am missing some small yet important step that is making this part get fubar'd.
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