K5 No root passwords work through WiFi on USBNet

C i s · Yesterday, 11:31 PM

So I enabled USBNet on my Kindle Touch 4, used that Sven.de root password generator, tried to log in to root through WiFi, with all of those passwords, but none of them work. New poster. Need help plz. And yes, I am 100% confident it is the actual kindle, because when it asks for the password, it says “Welcome to Kindle!”

mergen3107 · Today, 08:19 AM

For Wi-Fi, you would be better off with making a key pair.
Get PuTTy and use its puttygen to create a private key.
Copy the key into an empty file with no extension called authorized_keys (or something like that, please see the readme for exact naming) and put it into usbnetwork/etc on Kindle (again , I can’t remember the exact name see readme file).

Then put the same key but saved as ppk on the PC and point the authorization path to it (for example, I use WinSCP on Windows). User is root, and password field should stay empty.

Yesterday, 11:31 PM	#1
C i s Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2025 Device: Kindle Touch4 and Kindle Paperwhite 11, both jailbroken :)	No root passwords work through WiFi on USBNet So I enabled USBNet on my Kindle Touch 4, used that Sven.de root password generator, tried to log in to root through WiFi, with all of those passwords, but none of them work. New poster. Need help plz. And yes, I am 100% confident it is the actual kindle, because when it asks for the password, it says “Welcome to Kindle!”

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Today, 08:19 AM	#2
mergen3107 Wizard Posts: 1,535 Karma: 5000046 Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Cape Canaveral Device: Kindle Scribe	For Wi-Fi, you would be better off with making a key pair. Get PuTTy and use its puttygen to create a private key. Copy the key into an empty file with no extension called authorized_keys (or something like that, please see the readme for exact naming) and put it into usbnetwork/etc on Kindle (again , I can’t remember the exact name see readme file). Then put the same key but saved as ppk on the PC and point the authorization path to it (for example, I use WinSCP on Windows). User is root, and password field should stay empty.

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