[maemo-users] Maemo rootsh is misnamed?

[From: John Holmblad]

All,

it would appear that the maemo app rootsh is confusingly  misnamed the 
same as the standard rootsh command. I noticed while using it on the 
N800 via ssh that it does not require me to enter a password and 
nonetheless it provides root privileges after I first log in as a 
non-root user. My understanding of the standard rootsh command is that, 
in order to get a root shell with rootsh, the user must invoke rootsh 
using sudo.

Is it possible that the implementation of maemo rootsh incorporates a 
sudo command?

I guess that the author

    meant it when he asserted "Get root easily"!


Here is the url to the www page at the maemo www site for this maemo 
command:

    http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/rootsh/

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John Holmblad

 

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