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arooni · 12-17-2023, 01:58 PM

It's been a couple years since I've done this.

I have USB Network installed, but trying to ping 192.168.15.244 while status is "USBNEtwork: enabled (usbnet, sshd up)" is just yielding:

"192.168.15.244 ssh: connect to host 192.168.15.244 port 22: Operation timed out"

I have a Mac this time around so not sure how to massage these two friends into working together.

https://i.imgur.com/KamhheF.png

EDIT: Got it connected, apparently need to set the network interface to 192.168.15.201 first on the Mac side. That's the part I was missing. I really should have taken that networking class in college :\.

Next question(s):

1) Is it UNSAFE to allow ssh over wifi?
2) is it UNSAFE to enable ssh on boot?
3) I'm not sure what security there is in the ssh'ing as I didn't have to copy a key first. What is the accepted best practice here?

12-17-2023, 01:58 PM	#1
arooni Addict Posts: 315 Karma: 26 Join Date: Jul 2012 Device: Kindle Paperwhite 4 (2018)	Trouble getting USB Networking working on newly jailbroken Kindle Scribe It's been a couple years since I've done this. I have USB Network installed, but trying to ping 192.168.15.244 while status is "USBNEtwork: enabled (usbnet, sshd up)" is just yielding: "192.168.15.244 ssh: connect to host 192.168.15.244 port 22: Operation timed out" I have a Mac this time around so not sure how to massage these two friends into working together. https://i.imgur.com/KamhheF.png EDIT: Got it connected, apparently need to set the network interface to 192.168.15.201 first on the Mac side. That's the part I was missing. I really should have taken that networking class in college :\. Next question(s): 1) Is it UNSAFE to allow ssh over wifi? 2) is it UNSAFE to enable ssh on boot? 3) I'm not sure what security there is in the ssh'ing as I didn't have to copy a key first. What is the accepted best practice here? Last edited by arooni; 12-17-2023 at 02:06 PM.