[maemo-developers] becomeroot once again but with password

[From: Marius Gedminas]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 03:46:19PM +0000, James Grimwood wrote:
> To become root on my N800 I use ssh and xterm. I installed ssh so I
> could contact my other computers, but it's also quite handy doing
> 
> ssh root at 127.0.0.1
> 
> So you could write a little shell script that did this and run that.
> Doesn't require editing any files (which need root access to be able
> to do in the first place, and if you can get root then why do you need
> to modify the system to become root again? ;-)

So that you can get root in an easier way.

  sudo apt-get install foo

is considerably easier to type with the vkb than

  ssh root at 127.0.0.1
  rootme
  apt-get install foo
  exit

> Now the hard part is typing in the passwords using the onscreen
> keyboard. Entering autogenerated mixed-case passwords is tricky.

You do know that you can shift the case temporarily if you drag the key
upwards?

Marius Gedminas
-- 
Is it not true that nobody finds it impossible to believe that a
double negative isn't bad grammatical form?
		-- Mike on alt.pizza.delivery.drivers
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