Phew! Just made my first succesful rescue with this. Works greatly, thanks!

i forgot xterminal root password and rescueos doest help me to change it. rootme doesnt work on my phone (xterminal) rescueos shows the pasword is rootme but do not allow me to change it.


help me i forgot my root password. how to change it?

um....ain't the standard "sudo gainroot" for xterminal?
It's what I have always used on my n8x0's...
it should be the same for the n900...
not much has changed in regard to the basics....regardless of the model...AFAIK...right?
just gotta install rootsh first

el cid...if in doubt...just search the forum...I would imagine for something as fundamental as "xterminal root password" would have given you an answer...if not multiple answers to your dilemma ...

It is.

The only time you may need a root password is when you want to connect to the device as root via something like WinSCP. The number of times I wanted something like that could be counted on... err, one finger. A bent one.

There we go then...
2 for 2 ...el cid.
I am thinking that you haven't touched your n900 in quite a while to have forgotten a fundamental as this...

Now...
for me...
back to one of my fav. Quatermas movies ....
"X the Unknown..."...

Dun-dun dunnnn!

(and yes yes... it isn't a "Quatermas" movie ...specifically ..but X is in the genre...my fav Quatermas movie is number 2 for sure...
though the 1979 wasn't bad either...the 2005 remake was not my cup of tea...though it was done live...which is impressive..
Now back to the radioactive mud man....dun-dun dunnnn!..)

i buy sambung galaxy tab in april 2012 and do not touch n900 since 2012.

the question is if rootsh is essentialy needed. i want to put sudo su with password. any posibility of do thath without instal sudo or rootsh? only with the xterminal preconfigured like fresh install :S sorry for eng

Its ok...
My Spanish sucks...my girlfriend thinks its ok..but she is biased.

Anyway....
Isn't rootsh in the repos?
You should be able to download it from there...

You could try to copy /etc/passwd to mmc edit the file, blank the password or put some known password into it.

this would be a line with the password rootme
After you have modified your passwd, start rescueOS mount the root and mount mmc.
Replace the passwd file in /mnt/maemo/etc/.
As an alternative you could use nano to directly edit the passwd file.

Then run following command:

Now you can unmount everything, poweroff and start maemo again. You should be able to do 'su' in a terminal with the new password. After that you can change the password if it was blank.

I will also attach a binary for the N900 which can change the root password in a backup passwd file. Extract it and make it executable. But I guess when you fear rootsh, you will also not running this binary.

Usage:

It will ask for a new root password which replaces the old one in the file.

No .."point and click " ...for the poor guy ...huh Halftux?


Weeeeelllllllllll....

El Cid ..
ever heard of the term...
"too smart for your own good"?
or
"so smart you fooled yourself"?

I be thinkin' that if good ole el cid gets through this one...
he will be rethinking the whole
"need to make a password for xterm so well even I can't figure it out" ...
ever ever ever again...

It could be done, then I need to rewrite chrootpwd with plain c and integrating to rescueOS, but I am to lazy for that. Or figure out how to run a binary as su without sudo or rootsh and not knowing the password.

Thank you endsormeans I learn from you many unknown english terms. Sometimes it is hard to understand and I need to read more than once. Lol when google "El Cid"
The biggest harm to the device is when somebody else have it in his own hands. My work doesn't harm myself because I think it is already known.
Also removing the usb port doesn't give you protection, you still can install rootsh or sudo to change the root password.
Don't give the device away or do not loose it. Protect sensible data with truecrypt.