but this is only thru the adb shell. Rooted phones give normal application processes access to su and hence privileged commands. How can this be emulated? or there is something wrong with my understanding?
Cheers, Earlence On Sep 7, 2:31 pm, Atul Raut <[email protected]> wrote: > *You always have root on the Android emulator. * > > *To prove it, open a shell and type:* > > # su > # whoami > > root > > *Regards* > *-Atul * > > On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Earlence <[email protected]> wrote: > > Could explain that in more detail please? (and also why it is a bad > > idea) > > > On Sep 4, 7:23 pm, Chris Stratton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You need to create a privilege escalation mechanism then. Try adding > > > whatever is used on the rooted rom you want to be compatible with. > > > > A bad idea (but hey, its an emulator) is to use adb shell to make a > > > copy of sh owned by root, with the setuid bit set, called something > > > else. Run that and then run your special commamds from within it. > > > > On Sep 4, 9:51 am, Earlence <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Yes. via adb shell everything works. my point is to execute privileged > > > > commands from within the terminal emulator or from within native/Java > > > > code on the emulator to simulate a rooted device. > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Earlence > > > > > On Sep 4, 10:40 am, Chris Palmer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Then using the terminal emulator, > > > > > > Are you using the terminal emulator app on the emulator itself? That > > > > > is wrong. Use the adb command from your Android development > > > > > desktop/laptop. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Android Security Discussions" group. > > To post to this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<android-security-discuss%[email protected]> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-security-discuss?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Security Discussions" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-security-discuss?hl=en.
