Cheap and Nasty: Hacking the $5 Ritmo CE-3590 NAS Part 2

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Jul 092015
 

So after poking around with the bootloader, I decided to go look for the stock firmware to see if I could upload that with some modifications so I could play around with the stock system.

After a night of Googling, I couldn’t find any links to the original firmware. I tried to discover if I could download the firmware from the NAS, but that didn’t get me anywhere either. All the Googling did point me in the direction of SnakeOS however, which is replacement firmware for some NASes. However, it hadn’t been maintained in quite a few years so I was initially a bit hesitant.
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Cheap and Nasty: Hacking the $5 Ritmo CE-3590 NAS

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Jul 062015
 

I received my USB to TTL adapter today, so decided to have a look at the NAS and see if I could get root access to it.

The Serial console is actually under where the drive is, so I’ve gotten access to it from the bottom as there’s some plastic between where the drive goes and the port itself.

NAS Connected via Serial

NAS Connected via Serial

As you can see from the picture, I’ve stuck some jumper cords into the serial console port. The Yellow wire is actually the white wire on my USB->TTL converter, the green is still green, and black is still black. With the jumper leads plugged in, I turned the NAS On with screen listening on /dev/ttyUSB0 with a baud rate of 38400.
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