[ANNOUNCE] Rootsh - Another way of getting root.
 

Here is another package enabling root access on the tablet.

Features:

• Sudo gainroot works without having RD-Mode enabled.
• There is the root command which is quicker to type and sources the root .profile among others.
• An rootsh command allows you to quickly run an command as root without having to wait for an root shell. It works like sudo (rootsh <command>.

This package provides the exact same functionality of easyroot (and a slight bit more) and becomeroot (a lot more).

The main reason for this package was to have a package in extras that would give you root without having to leave the application manager.

To install, you can find this in the chinook & diablo extras, which if they are enabled, you should see a package called rootsh showing up in your application manager.

Alternatively, you can just click the the install file from here:
http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/rootsh/

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Rootsh - Another way of getting root.
 

qwerty12's the man!

Already updated the wiki to recommend rootsh, I suggest everybody forget about the other two and only recommend this one.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Rootsh - Another way of getting root.
 

A good example of the community stepping up to replace (and side-line) applications which aren't in Extras.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Rootsh - Another way of getting root.
 

qwerty12, you saved the a55 of my colleague who put /bin/root into the shell field of /etc/passwd for user root, and couldn't get root anymore :-)

One small note: maybe it would make sense by default to run /bin/bash instead of /bin/sh if it exists. I think if somebody installed bash, then it prefers bash over the default shell.

Also it would be better to run /bin/sh and /bin/bash with the -l option (login). This will load ~/.profile for the user account and possibly other stuff to set up the shell for root.

By the way, wouldn't it be easier to just install a file under /etc/sudoers.d/ with something like:

user ALL = NOPASSWD: ALL

? Then you can sudo any command. Or even with user's password (if removing NOPASSWD:), just like in Ubuntu.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Rootsh - Another way of getting root.
 

sudo gainroot is used how nokia intended it to be used :). If I introduce changes, it may break scripts that depend on sudo gainroot (kernel_flasher, lardman's sbcenc's install script etc).

running "root" however uses su and that will spawn a root shell that does load /root/.profile etc. su naturally uses the shell specified in /etc/passwd.

I think that rootsh does try run /bin/bash first before running sh, from what I can tell from the source anyway. But I'm not a programmer so I may be wrong :).

I thought about that but I was unsure whether it was wise to include it. After all, a lot of stuff uses sudo and I don't want to try and create any security problems :). Although you could argue rootsh (the program) does do that :/

Thanks for the suggestions though, much appreciated.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Rootsh - Another way of getting root.
 

Okay, I hate to be the next guy to release the 1001th-gainroot-package, but I waited long enough for somebody to implement such a thing properly :)

So, I did a small package which allows to gain root access by configuring 'sudo' properly. After that sudo works much like in Ubuntu - by asking the user password once in every session. You can also choose to not use a password, in which case you'll get just another 'gainroot'-alike package.

The package contains just a small config file for sudo, and a small shortcut script called "rush" which drops you to a root shell (it just executes sudo -H -i).

Packages should appear here:

http://repository.maemo.org/extras-d...free/s/sudser/
http://repository.maemo.org/extras-d...free/s/sudser/

The chinook package is untested, if anybody tries it please tell me the result.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Rootsh - Another way of getting root.
 

Thanks for the sudser port it certainly has its place besides rootsh.

Its normally my preferred way of gaining root except, in public, I don't want to type [such] passwords.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Rootsh - Another way of getting root.
 

I'd much rather see sudser merged with rootsh than be in the same situation again with a lot of disparate root packages that mostly accomplish the same thing.

Though one user reported a reboot loop after installing sudser.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Rootsh - Another way of getting root.
 

Maybe that was me, I was debugging sudser :-) I'm zap on irc.

I agree there are too many gainroot packages around. But I think using sudo which is already present on any system is the proper way to do it; besides saving a bit of space it also allows to protect root access with user password.

And about merging... I don't see what can be merged here, sudo can do everything rootsh can, and more.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Rootsh - Another way of getting root.
 

Well... sudser fuxs up my device. When I install it I cannot boot my NIT anymore. Beware!