How would I go about getting root access to my N900 when I plug it through USB to my PC running Ubuntu 12.04? I've been using Qt Mobile Hotspot but would like to do this without any application. Just plug in the N900 without it asking which mode to select (I know you can move hildon-status-menu-usb.desktop) and it should be usable straight from Nautilus. SSHFS would be preferable as I read it's better than SFTP. MyDocs is ext4+LUKS in the second partition of eMMC for which I have a script to mount MyDocs manually. I've symlinked phone data (messages, contacts etc.) there so it shouldn't get unmounted like in Mass Storage mode.

I've searched a lot but can't figure out how to get this to work. It seems as something simple to do. I installed SSHFS on both my PC and N900 and got some "read: connection reset by peer" error. Played around with the "ifup usb0" thing. I also have OpenSSH server installed on N900... Thanks for any help.