RM 1 SSH user account question / Remarkable and Pi monitor

[andparr]

Hello! I wasn't sure how to get the attention of anyone that would know the answer, so please redirect me/my post as necessary.

I'm trying to set up a second user on an RM1 as part of the setup for this, apparently unmaintained project: https://github.com/helixhorned/ljremarkable .

I can add the user and set a password through busybox, but I cannot SSH into the new user account as password authentication fails (although I am entering the correct user acct password I just created). I suspect the problem is that SSH password authentication is not enabled on the RM1 but I haven't found a lot of info about where the dropbear config files are on the RM1 or how to edit them. Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated! Thanks very much.

EDIT: Update: I used the old remarkable wiki guide to generate an SSH key pair (ssh-keygen), make a /.ssh/authorized_keys directory for the new user ($USER, shall we say), and copy the key to that directory. Now requesting an SSH session with $USER@10.11.99.1 opens a normal password prompt, but entering the account password gives the error "Permission denied, please try again."

[Eeems]

I suspect the problem is that SSH password authentication is not enabled on the RM1 but I haven't found a lot of info about where the dropbear config files are on the RM1 or how to edit them.

I would not recommend touching the dropbear configuration, as you can leave yourself without being able to ssh into the device anymore. SSH password authentication is enabled, otherwise you would not be able to sign in as root with just the password.

• Have you reviewed any of the device logs, or looked at the verbose ssh output to see what is being attempted?
• What steps did you take to send the ssh key to the device for this new user? The steps in remarkable.guide are only for the root user, and assume you can SSH in with the password, which you cannot for the user you are attempting to setup.
• Have you confirmed that the password you entered is correct on the device with login?

[andparr]

Thanks for your quick reply!

Sorry for the change of subject, but I ended up abandoning this approach tonight and going with vnsee instead. For context, my overall goal was to get my RM1 functioning as a front end for my Raspberry Pi 3B in landscape mode (I'd like to build a small laptop with it).

For anyone who may be interested in future, I'll leave a description of what I did here (though it is off topic now).
Design constraints:

• VNC over physical cable
• no toltec (I like 3.11.15 and the rmhacks on the tablet, so I didn't want to downgrade)

I manually installed vnsee to the RM1 with scp and made it executable (chmod +x vnsee) in /home/root. Then I installed x11vnc from the default Debian repos on the Pi (running Raspbian OS).

The Pi and the RM1 are connected with the USB cable that came with the RM1.

I stopped the xochitl service (systemctl stop xochitl) and started x11vnc on the Pi with the following options:

x11vnc -repeat -forever -nocursor -allow 10.11.99.1 -nopw -rotate 90 -scale 1872x1404

Then I started ./vnsee from /home/root on the RM1.

This worked flawlessly on the first try, and the refresh rate is snappy and usable. You can control the Pi desktop with the pen or with fingers (although the mouse mapping is a little weird right now). After killing the VNC connection, systemctl start xochitl restarted the RM1 with no issues. The next thing is to write a little script to map starting and stopping the VNC server to an RM1 button press (one of the things I wanted the other project above for), which I'll put somewhere on Github when I'm done. Photo for proof.

Thanks again for your help and thanks to everyone in the community for all your hard work on these neat little machines.