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Originally Posted by tripleh
yeah i searched everywhere but didn't find anything ,but just to get idea can u give me short summary of use of SSH so I can dig more information
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I'm not very knowledgeable about how to do it on the Kindle. On this, I'm a tutorial follower, just like you. Someone correct if I say something wrong here.
However, I some experience with SSH and Linux in general, because at work I use that.
In a non-technical, general sense, SSH is two things at once:
- It's an encryption protocol (not very relevant for the Kindle, used to encrypt and log into stuff)
- It's a way to connect remotely to a Linux computer/device(what you're trying to do with your Kindle)
The only reason I can see for someone to ever want to mess with SSH on their Kindle is whether they're trying to delete and edit, rename and move system files around in the Kindle, namely, you're not afraid of killing it or if you're a developer (or both).
I was the first kind and had a beautiful, working Paperwhite 3. I installed USBNetwork, it didn't work, upon the next reboot, bang, it just froze on the boy under tree image.
That SSH Kindle went to the trash yesterday, its serial port didn't work for some reason, so I took the good parts (battery, screen, screws) and threw the rest away.
I killed other two before, another PW3 and a PW2, but in different ways
Not anyone's fault but mine, I'm curious and I don't care.
I'd be wary of doing stuff without reading carefully, having a clear purpose on why and understanding you may kill it.
Also, I do Arduino/embedded stuff as a hobby since a long time ago, I have experience messing with cables, bootloaders, flashing stuff, serial ports, bla bla bla etc. What I can say about the Kindle in particular is:
- 1. The community is extremely wise, as you can see from guys like katedelos, Nijule and others
- I don't like reading or interacting a lot, I'm good with reading carefully and following directions, so I didn't even have an account until recently
- Problem is, directions and tutorials here aren't always very detailed, they mostly assume you already know what you're doing. SSH is a strong example of that, where you're gonna find bits of information here and there, but not a consolidated, holding-your-hands tutorials
- Some stuff you do "right" and it just kills your Kindle. Not sure why, it happened twice before. One I installed KUAL and boom, it died, the other while jailbreaking
- People here are very busy, some devs are away since a long time ago because they apparently moved on from the Kindle
- In other words, if you brick your device, you may (or may not) be on your own, so unless you want to take that risk I'd say don't mess around too much, the Kindle is more sensible than say, an Android smartphone, or an arduino