Remote Execution of Kindle Applets

[lordhenry]

Hello,

first, thank you all for your work on jailbreaking the kindle, writing programs for it, and writing tutorials for newbies (like me)! Now, here is my question:

I've jailbreaked my kindle 4, installed ssh, and also written a basic hello world applet for it. I would like to know if it is possible to issue the opening of some webpage in the browser on the Kindle via ssh...

Thank you!

[NiLuJe]

Not quite sure we can do that on a K4. On newer devices running FW 5.x, much easier, though .

[lordhenry]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

Not quite sure we can do that on a K4. On newer devices running FW 5.x, much easier, though .

Ok. How does it work on devices running FW 5.x? Maybe this information could help me with the K4...

[NiLuJe]

Sending the right lipc call to appmgr (don't have a device on hand right now).

[knc1]

Originally Posted by lordhenry

Hello,

first, thank you all for your work on jailbreaking the kindle, writing programs for it, and writing tutorials for newbies (like me)! Now, here is my question:

I've jailbreaked my kindle 4, installed ssh, and also written a basic hello world applet for it. I would like to know if it is possible to remotely execute a Kindlet Applet or trigger some actions on it that are actually visible in the GUI. It would be nice, for instance, to issue the opening of some webpage in the browser on the Kindle via ssh. Do you know if or how this is possible?

Thank you!

Presuming -
You have sshd (in the USBnetworking package) installed -
You have a network connection to the Kindle (you did write: "remote") -
You have public key authentication setup -
You have a 'nickname' set in your ~.ssh/config file for the connection details to the Kindle (shown here as: kpw) -
Then you can run any executable (or shell command) without logging in simply with:
ssh kpw 'ls -l /mnt/us/documents'

$ ssh kpw 'ls -l /mnt/us/documents'

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        127173 Sep 25  2015 KUAL-KDK-2.0.azw2
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        469576 Jan  1 17:22 Kindle User's Guide 3rd Edition_B0058H5MQM.azw3
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          8192 Mar 29 21:01 Kindle User's Guide 3rd Edition_B0058H5MQM.sdr
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          8192 Aug 15  2013 Kindle_Users_Guide.sdr
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          8192 Apr  2 14:30 cpu_report.sdr
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          2818 Apr  2 14:17 cpu_report.txt
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root          8192 Aug  4  2013 dictionaries

or the appropriate lipc command or other executable program
OR
You set the command to be run as one of the fields in your authorized_keys file for the pub-key that is allowed to run it.

Same-same as any other *nix based system.
Just google "OpenSSH usage" or whatever, there are giga-bytes of documentation on the net about it.

[lordhenry]

Originally Posted by knc1

Presuming -
You have sshd (in the USBnetworking package) installed -
You have a network connection to the Kindle (you did write: "remote") -
You have public key authentication setup -
You have a 'nickname' set in your ~.ssh/config file for the connection details to the Kindle (shown here as: kpw) -
Then you can run any executable (or shell command) without logging in simply with:
ssh kpw 'ls -l /mnt/us/documents'

$ ssh kpw 'ls -l /mnt/us/documents'

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        127173 Sep 25  2015 KUAL-KDK-2.0.azw2
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        469576 Jan  1 17:22 Kindle User's Guide 3rd Edition_B0058H5MQM.azw3
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          8192 Mar 29 21:01 Kindle User's Guide 3rd Edition_B0058H5MQM.sdr
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          8192 Aug 15  2013 Kindle_Users_Guide.sdr
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          8192 Apr  2 14:30 cpu_report.sdr
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          2818 Apr  2 14:17 cpu_report.txt
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root          8192 Aug  4  2013 dictionaries

or the appropriate lipc command or other executable program
OR
You set the command to be run as one of the fields in your authorized_keys file for the pub-key that is allowed to run it.

Same-same as any other *nix based system.
Just google "OpenSSH usage" or whatever, there are giga-bytes of documentation on the net about it.

I know how to handle SSH and start native programs, that is not the problem... but I didn't know about lipc, thanks! So I guess the WebBrowser is started via lipc internally? Do you know which exact arguments I must pass to "lipc-set-prop" to open up some WebPage on the Kindle? Whats the equivalent of "lipc-set-prop com.lab126.appmgrd start app://XYZ" on the Kindle 4?

[knc1]

Originally Posted by lordhenry

I know how to handle SSH and start native programs, that is not the problem...
- - - - -

You did not mention that in your question.
If you had, I could have spent my time on a more helpful reply.

Since you also fail to give any background on what you have done, and with what results, to the question you now ask -
I'll try once again to give the obvious answer:

Do you also know how to run:
"grep -r libc *"
on the K4 command line?
Have you done that?
What have you done?
With what results?

Please consider the following and the content of the linked article:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=272087
before replying.