On May 12, 11:02 pm, toto <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a theory
> since terminal application is signed with same certificate as the
> system certificate it has the ability to perform superuser actions
> What you probably meant is that a 3rd party applications (which are
> signed with different keys) won't pass the authorization rules.
> is my theory getting close?
It's even simpler than that. In system/extras/su/su.c:
if (myuid != AID_ROOT && myuid != AID_SHELL) {
fprintf(stderr,"su: uid %d not allowed to su\n", myuid);
return 1;
}
So it should not work in the terminal application, but it should work
from "adb shell".
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