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moontear · 01-08-2017, 04:02 PM

This is all news to me. Awesome!

However no dice. With ssh Just using username:<ENTER> and password: <ENTER> still gets me access denied. Via WiFi and as well via usb cable. Enabling the dropbear banner I get a "Welcome to Kindle" Banner after the username, but still have to enter the password and empty doesn't work.

Telnet works right away and I also seem to be root (didn't know there was telnet, great). Short of just trying to use John the Ripper to get to the root password, what else can I try? Or should I just set up PubKey auth via telnet and be done with it - whatever the password is?

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WAIT: I tried again with user: root, password: <empty>/<ENTER> and it works.

I don't know what the hell changed but... it works now. Thanks for the heads up knc1. I'll set up pukey auth now and already changed the root password to something I can remember. Better than empty ;-)

01-08-2017, 04:02 PM	#2546
moontear Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2017 Device: Kindle Paperwhite 2 Wifi	This is all news to me. Awesome! However no dice. With ssh Just using username:<ENTER> and password: <ENTER> still gets me access denied. Via WiFi and as well via usb cable. Enabling the dropbear banner I get a "Welcome to Kindle" Banner after the username, but still have to enter the password and empty doesn't work. Telnet works right away and I also seem to be root (didn't know there was telnet, great). Short of just trying to use John the Ripper to get to the root password, what else can I try? Or should I just set up PubKey auth via telnet and be done with it - whatever the password is? ------------ WAIT: I tried again with user: root, password: <empty>/<ENTER> and it works. I don't know what the hell changed but... it works now. Thanks for the heads up knc1. I'll set up pukey auth now and already changed the root password to something I can remember. Better than empty ;-) Last edited by moontear; 01-08-2017 at 04:15 PM.