What are the credentials to telnet/ftp to Kobo?

[Dirk-71]

servername "KOBOeReader" does not work for ftp. The IP-adress does work. What am I doing wrong?

[DNSB]

Unless you have a DNS server with an entry to translate KOBOeReader to the IP address, you will need to use the IP address.

This has nothing to do with the credentials.

[Dirk-71]

Yes, I see...thanks.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Unless you have a DNS server with an entry to translate KOBOeReader to the IP address, you will need to use the IP address.

This has nothing to do with the credentials.

Or the name in a "hosts" file your device has and actually uses.

[qqqqqqqqqqqz]

I'm trying to log in via Telnet using admin:admin but I get "Login incorrect". What's the new login for firmware 4.42.23296?

[DNSB]

There are no Telnet credentials. You can use SSH (rename the ssh-disabled file in .kobo to ssh-enabled). The login name is root and you will need to set the password on your first connection. For me, the password was not being saved so I use the passwd command to change and save the password.

[qqqqqqqqqqqz]

How did you run the passwd command? Also I'm trying root but it's not letting me set the password. I just get the password prompt instead.

[DNSB]

When I logged in using SSH, I was prompted to set the password. I entered it twice and I was logged in. The next time, I got the same set the password, entered it twice and then used passwd to set it again which seemed to set it properly.

If the root password was set elsewhere (during a Telnet session or whatever), it's likely to be needed to log in.

[Cootey]

I ssh’d into my KLC just fine, and followed your advice to run passwd, but I can’t FTP. Has this been removed as well, or is there another protocol that I should be using?

[DNSB]

I tested my FTP connection from a Windows command line and it connected, allowed me to login, etc. I used NickelMenu to toggle FTP on using port 1021.

C:\Users\dbowe>ftp
ftp> open 10.0.0.93 1021
Connected to 10.0.0.93.
220 Operation successful
530 Login with USER+PASS
User (10.0.0.93:(none)): root
331 Specify password
Password:

230 Operation successful
ftp> ls
200 Operation successful
150 Directory listing
.adds
.adobe-digital-editions
.kobo
.kobo-images
.reading-states
.thumbnail-previews
Ebooks
My Notebooks
System Volume Information
fonts
.fat32-epoch
.metadata.json
driveinfo.calibre
metadata.calibre
226 Operation successful
ftp: 219 bytes received in 0.00Seconds 54.75Kbytes/sec.
ftp>

#
menu_item :main :FTP (status) :cmd_output :500:quiet: /usr/bin/pgrep -f "^/usr/bin/tcpsvd -E 0.0.0.0 1021"  
  chain_success :dbg_toast  :FTP active on port 1021
  chain_failure :dbg_toast  :FTP inactive on port 1021
#
menu_item :main :FTP (toggle) :cmd_output :500:quiet: /usr/bin/pgrep -f "^/usr/bin/tcpsvd -E 0.0.0.0 1021"
  chain_success:skip:4
    chain_failure :cmd_spawn :quiet :exec /usr/bin/tcpsvd -E 0.0.0.0 1021 /usr/sbin/ftpd -w -t 30 /mnt/onboard
    chain_success :dbg_toast :Started FTP server for KOBOeReader partition on port 1021
    chain_failure :dbg_toast :Error starting FTP server on port 1021
    chain_always:skip:-1
  chain_success :cmd_spawn :quiet :/usr/bin/pkill -f "^/usr/bin/tcpsvd -E 0.0.0.0 1021"                  
  chain_always :dbg_toast :Stopped FTP server on port 1021
#

[Dirk-71]

Has there been another change for the login username (admin) and password (admin)?
It's not working with this.

[DNSB]

With the newer firmware, you will be using SSH and not Telnet. To enable ssh, edit the name of ssh-disabled in the .kobo directory to ssh-enabled. You should be prompted to create a password when you first log in.

The content of the ssh-disable file is:

To enable ssh:
- Rename this file to ssh-enabled
- Reboot the device
- Connect via: ssh root@<device_ip>

[Dirk-71]

Ok thanks, I would prefer FTP. SSH ist not an adequate replacement for my needs.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Dirk-71

Ok thanks, I would prefer FTP. SSH ist not an adequate replacement for my needs.

You could try enabling FTP on your Kobo and then connecting after creating the password using SSH. I haven't used FTP on a Kobo in quite a while but the NickelMenu options I used were:

menu_item :main :FTP (status) :cmd_output :500:quiet: /usr/bin/pgrep -f "^/usr/bin/tcpsvd -E 0.0.0.0 1021"  
  chain_success :dbg_toast  :FTP active on port 1021
  chain_failure :dbg_toast  :FTP inactive on port 1021

menu_item :main :FTP (toggle) :cmd_output :500:quiet: /usr/bin/pgrep -f "^/usr/bin/tcpsvd -E 0.0.0.0 1021"
  chain_success:skip:4
    chain_failure :cmd_spawn :quiet :exec /usr/bin/tcpsvd -E 0.0.0.0 1021 /usr/sbin/ftpd -w -t 30 /mnt/onboard
    chain_success :dbg_toast :Started FTP server for KOBOeReader partition on port 1021
    chain_failure :dbg_toast :Error starting FTP server on port 1021
    chain_always:skip:-1
  chain_success :cmd_spawn :quiet :/usr/bin/pkill -f "^/usr/bin/tcpsvd -E 0.0.0.0 1021"                  
  chain_always :dbg_toast :Stopped FTP server on port 1021

[Dirk-71]

Yes, that's it!



EDIT:
For Clara BW and Libra 2 it works as described above (generating a password by SSH).

For older readers like H2O (1. Edition) and Aura One SSH is not needed. The login-data for FTP:
username: root
password: admin