[GoFlex Home] Cannot login via SSH with latest Debian rootfs (v6.5.7) (no replies)

Hello

I'm installing the latest Debian rootfs (Debian-6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1-rootfs-bodhi.tar.bz2) on my GoFlex Home, and everything seems to boot successfully from USB. Here are the steps I’ve completed so far:

1. Partitioned and formatted the USB drive as ext3, labeled it as "rootfs".
2. Extracted the rootfs archive to the USB root using:

sudo tar -xjf Debian-6.5.7-kirkwood-tld-1-rootfs-bodhi.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/usb

3. Mounted dev, proc, sys and chrooted into /mnt/usb to set the root password and enable SSH login:

- Set a new root password using `passwd`
- Edited `/etc/ssh/sshd_config`:
```

     PermitRootLogin yes
     PasswordAuthentication yes

```
4. Unmounted everything and rebooted the GoFlex Home.

On reboot:

- I see the GoFlex Home gets an IP address from the router.
- The LED turns green.
- Port 22 is open (checked via nmap).
- I can ping the device.
- But SSH always gives:
`Permission denied, please try again.`

I also tried connecting using:

ssh -oKexAlgorithms=+diffie-hellman-group14-sha1 \
    -oHostKeyAlgorithms=+ssh-rsa \
    root@<IP>

Still no success.

Is there anything I'm missing or doing wrong?
Do I need to install the latest U-Boot in order to use this rootfs properly?
(Unfortunately, I don't have a USB-to-TTL serial cable at the moment.)

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

To bodhi, thanks so much for your great work!