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Originally Posted by stevejoung
But I do need a password to enter the kindle OS, at least for the first time, and that is precisely my problem.
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No you don't. Unless you switch to OpenSSH or enable SSH-over-WiFi, dropbear is patched to let you in despite the root account being locked or passworded (just hit enter).
This gaping hole goes poof once you enable WiFi or switch to OpenSSH, though, but that's not the default setup.
The intent being: you install USBNet, you don't touch anything, you get in over USB, you setup your keypair, and *then* you tweak your settings.
As usual, ssh -vvv is your friend, but my 0.02$ is still that you bungled the USBNet network interface setup setup and you're actually connecting to a completely different device on your network (possibly your actual host).