On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 04:44:16PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:

I have set up shellinabox on my home system to allow me to connect from the web browser in my Amazon Kindle.

I have it working OK to the extent that I can log in as a user whose password has no special characters in it, so the basic communications and connections are working.

However my own password has non-alphanumeric characters in it and when I try and log in from the Kindle using shellinabox it always fails authentication. It fails if I log in directly or if I try and 'su -' from the login that I can do successfully.

Logging in to shellinabox from Firefox works OK.

So the Kindle->shellinabox connection is losing/changing something. When I type the non-alphanumeric characters in the working login they are echoed correctly so it's down to something in the interaction with login I think.

Can anyone suggest a way of diagnosing this?

Typical! After wasting ages on this last night and then sending the above message, it now works.

The only think I can think of is that there's a timeout on typing the password and that I was taking too long last night whereas with my improving efficiency at using the Kindle keyboard I'm now doing it quicker.

Still I'm happy now, I can access my E-Mail (using mutt via ssh) from my Kindle.