Hacking Pepper’s Linux (setting up SSH)
Yes, it’s here.
And since there’s virtually zero third-party information about this thing on the net, expect this category of my site to get very busy, very soon.
I got the Pepper Pad for two reasons:
- Easy-to-use , portable web browsing throughout my home
- Makes a decent portable video player too
- Has full Linux distro, meaning can be hacked to your heart’s content, which for me means run lots of emulators
So after about 15 minutes, I’ve got sshd running so I can at least login to it remotely and not have to use the xterm with the thumb-board.
Here’s how to do it:
- Open the xterm – press Ctrl-Shift-1.
- Edit the /etc/sshdconfig file to allow remote root logins: vi /etc/ssh/sshdconfig
- Find the line that says PermitRootLogin, and uncomment it (remove the # from the beginning of the line, put the cursor on it and hit x), then save (ZZ)
- Assign a root password. Run ‘passwd’. SSH clients don’t seem to want to let me login as root with no password, for good reason 🙂
- Start the ssh server: /etc/rc.d/init.d/ssh start
- If you want the ssh server to start on every cold boot: ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/ssh /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S89ssh
- Now you can login remotely, run ‘ifconfig’ on the Pepper to find your IP address, then ssh to it as root from the other machine.
It’s here! It’s here!
