How To: Enable Root Telnet on Boxee Box!

**minel** · November 13th, 2010, 07:23 PM

- Add repository "dir.fuzzthed.com"
- Start "Launcher" app
- Create application; link should be "/usr/sbin/telnetd -l /bin/sh" -- including all quotes
- Click on newly created application; nothing happens on the Boxee.
- Telnet to the box; you should be logged in as root with no password prompt.

http://boxeeboxwiki.org/wiki/TelnetD

**Silverlock** · November 13th, 2010, 07:53 PM

Between this and the updater details, I think things are about to get very interesting!

**geekmeister** · November 13th, 2010, 08:25 PM

This is great. Perhaps we can organize a fork of Boxee (we can call it Haxee) that would revert back to version 0.9 and expound on it by plugging all the holes (Haxee v.1 anyone?), create and allow for apps that would circumvent blocks by various content providers including Hulu. The only issue is the fork will most likely never have Netflix or other paid content providers, but then again if you have a newer TV or BR player, Neflix is already there.

**redsmoke** · November 13th, 2010, 10:03 PM

Is the boxee box just running linux with linux flash on X? if so I wonder if there might be a way to pull in the linux hulu desktop version and get hulu back.

**micr0be** · November 13th, 2010, 10:25 PM

I love how fast this information got out. Someone smarter than me will have an awesome firmware solution ready for us in no time

**timbudtwo** · November 13th, 2010, 10:39 PM

Originally Posted by micr0be

I love how fast this information got out. Someone smarter than me will have an awesome firmware solution ready for us in no time

No they wont.
The only thing this gives you the ability to do is install software that isn't approved and meddle with the files (you could reskin boxee if you wanted.) Seeing as this is a brand new box most software/hardware interaction will be undocumented and most "hacks" will just be modifications to xml files.

**minel** · November 13th, 2010, 10:54 PM

Originally Posted by timbudtwo

No they wont.
The only thing this gives you the ability to do is install software that isn't approved and meddle with the files (you could reskin boxee if you wanted.) Seeing as this is a brand new box most software/hardware interaction will be undocumented and most "hacks" will just be modifications to xml files.

or a way to get XBMC on it :P

**aiiee** · November 13th, 2010, 11:05 PM

Originally Posted by timbudtwo

No they wont.
The only thing this gives you the ability to do is install software that isn't approved and meddle with the files (you could reskin boxee if you wanted.) Seeing as this is a brand new box most software/hardware interaction will be undocumented and most "hacks" will just be modifications to xml files.

Just kind of blue-skying here but it might be possible to rename the flash player, create a new program with the old name of the flash player and have it sit in it's stead so that when Hulu queries it for its flash id, the fake flash can return a string acceptable to Hulu. All other calls to Flash are passed thru the fake Flash and on to the real, re-named one. Like I said, just blue-sky

**xmcnuggetx** · November 14th, 2010, 08:27 AM

id be curious if someone could just package an app that delivers the linux huludesktop client and runs it...

**s.macneill** · November 14th, 2010, 08:59 AM

excellent, i think i was able to resolve two things i wanted.

*edited to add full path*
/data/.boxee/UserData/guisettings.xml

modified the buffer for local lan to 4MB instead of 2MB (streaming wifi... not reliable)

<cachevideo>
<dvdrom>2048</dvdrom>
<internet>4096</internet>
<lan>4096</lan> <--- was 2048

and i didnt like that subtitles were automatically on all the time. i was able to turn them off... by default.

<showsubtitles>false</showsubtitles> <--- was true