[maemo-users] red pill in os2007?

[From: Dan Dennedy]

On Saturday 07 July 2007 00:35, Alan Williamson wrote:
> Dan Dennedy wrote:
> > I flashed my N800 with the new os2007. When I invoke the red pill in App
> > Manager, it does not appear to do anything. Can someone confirm or deny
> > the same result?
>
> I have found the same problem.  I want to get root access in the xterm,
> and no matter what hoops i jump through i am unable.  I am attempting to
> remote mount a CIFS partition.
>
> Can someone please elaborate how one can gain root access?

I was able to install osso-xterm from the maemo-hackers.org repository as well 
as the dropbear(ssh)-server, also from same repo. Then, I could ssh into it 
as root with the standard rootme password.