[maemo-users] Getting root on OS2008

[From: Ed Bartosh]

On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 19:24 +0200, ext Tuukka Tolvanen wrote:
> Ed Bartosh wrote:
> 
> > Just one suggestion. '4. Open xterm' item in your list looks a bit confusing for me.
> > I'd replace it with something like 'run your favorite ssh client on your desktop'.
> 
> That change to step 4 would complicate step 5; you'd have to know where 
> to reach the tablet, you might not have network or your favorite ssh 
> client or a desktop available, etc. ...iow, it would take prerequisites 
> that aren't known to be available.
> 
Sorry, I didn't understand that Marius proposed to run ssh client on the
tablet. 

It looks a bit strange for me to run ssh daemon just to become root
locally. I would prefer to use local solutions (becomeroot, rootsh) for
that.

-- 
Ed Bartosh <eduard.bartosh at nokia.com>
Nokia-M/Helsinki