Dgpretzel2: I am mystified when you say that the link http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html leads to a dead end. I just tried it and it worked fine for me. I downloaded the latest .deb version from it.

When I go to that site, I see a link to the Maemo version. I click on it, and find the link to be dead. Hence, my question about using the more generic Debian version.

Regards,

DG

dgpretzel: When I went to that site a second time today, I saw the same as before. In the upper right hand corner is a list of versions to be downloaded. The latest .deb version is (mistakenly?) identified as 0.48.1. As I said earlier today, I downloaded it and checked and it's the exact same version I downloaded and successfully installed on my Nokia several months ago (which was, and still is, labeled as 0.48.01). On the same page, farther down, is a list of distributions, in which Maemo -- Nokia 770 is listed. If you click on that and follow a circuitous route of certificate waivers, you get once again to the .deb 0.48.1 or .01) as listed at the top of the page. This has worked for me. Again, good luck.

I will try again tonight, when I get home from work. (The State of Alaska, in its infinite wisdom, blocks http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html (and many others, too).

However, for the last couple days, I only got 404 (not found) errors when I tried to click on the komputika.net/maemo link that the matt.ucc.asn.au page contains.

OK, I just tried the komputika.net site again (State of Alaska does not block that site), and now it's back. And the maemo directory is also back. It definitely was not there every time I checked yesterday and over the weekend.

I see what you mean, now, about being the same as the Deb package.

I will try it at home tonight.

Thank you for your persistence.

The site must come and go unpredictably.

Regards,

DG


P.S. Since others have been pleased with "becomeroot", I will try it, too. Maybe I can determine what it did by making some before and after observations.

Installing becomeroot backs up the /etc/sudoers file then runs this script:
that's all.

Un-installing it restores the backup file.

Thank you, all.



I finally decided, once I had ssh access from a desktop machine, that just manually editing the /etc/sudoers file was the way to go, so that's what I did.


I finally figured out that it was very likely that that was all "becomeroot" did. Thank you for confirming, BanditRider.

This little machine is so great.

Thank you all, again, for your generous assistance.

DG