Re: Getting root on OS2008

2007-12-30 Thread Ari Yrjölä
Marius Gedminas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Easy! 1. Enable the Maemo Extras repository 2. Install openssh 3. Define a root password (openssh's installer prompts you for this) Doesn't ask anything here with N800. Red pill + 'sudo gainroot' doesn't work either for me: ~ $ sudo gainroot

Re: Getting root on OS2008

2007-12-30 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Dec 30, 2007 12:42 PM, Ari Yrjölä [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marius Gedminas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. Enable the Maemo Extras repository 2. Install openssh 3. Define a root password (openssh's installer prompts you for this) Doesn't ask anything here with N800. There seem to be

Re: Getting root on OS2008

2007-12-30 Thread Tuomas Kulve
Ari Yrjölä wrote: Marius Gedminas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Easy! 1. Enable the Maemo Extras repository 2. Install openssh 3. Define a root password (openssh's installer prompts you for this) Doesn't ask anything here with N800. Did work for me with n800 os2008. Red pill + 'sudo

Re: Missing OS2008 cmdline apps (was Re: how to install OS2007?)

2007-12-30 Thread Tuomas Kulve
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's bizarre. What security implications are there in ping that would mean it has to be run only by root? Forcing people to use root when not necessary is itself a security problem. Ping seems to be setuid root on my debian. So it's run as root here too. --

Re: Missing OS2008 cmdline apps (was Re: how to install OS2007?)

2007-12-30 Thread Krischan Keitsch
I've built some today (less, links, mc, wget; made vim actually installable). I don't have upload privileges to maemo extras yet, so you can find them only at http://mg.pov.lt/770/ ... Marius Gedminas Hi Marius, thanks for providing mc. That makes remote working on the device much more

Re: Missing OS2008 cmdline apps (was Re: how to install OS2007?)

2007-12-30 Thread Peter Flynn
Tuomas Kulve wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's bizarre. What security implications are there in ping that would mean it has to be run only by root? Forcing people to use root when not necessary is itself a security problem. Ping seems to be setuid root on my debian. So it's run

Re: Getting root on OS2008

2007-12-30 Thread Ari Yrjölä
Andrew Flegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Dec 30, 2007 12:42 PM, Ari Yrjölä [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marius Gedminas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. Enable the Maemo Extras repository 2. Install openssh 3. Define a root password (openssh's installer prompts you for this) Doesn't ask

Re: Getting root on OS2008

2007-12-30 Thread Tuukka Tolvanen
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

Re: Missing OS2008 cmdline apps (was Re: how to install OS2007?)

2007-12-30 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 05:03:42PM +0200, Tuomas Kulve wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's bizarre. What security implications are there in ping that would mean it has to be run only by root? Forcing people to use root when not necessary is itself a security problem. Ping seems

Re: Getting root on OS2008

2007-12-30 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 06:40:31PM +0200, Ari Yrjölä wrote: Andrew Flegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Dec 30, 2007 12:42 PM, Ari Yrjölä [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marius Gedminas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. Enable the Maemo Extras repository 2. Install openssh 3. Define a root

Re: Missing OS2008 cmdline apps

2007-12-30 Thread inode0
On Dec 30, 2007 11:13 AM, James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ari Yrjölä wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's bizarre. What security implications are there in ping that would mean it has to be run only by root? Forcing people to use root when not necessary is itself a security

Re: MPlayer and Free42 for OS 2008

2007-12-30 Thread Martin Grimme
Hi, A chinook version of mplayer is available in extras-devel and will, presumably, be promoted to maemo Extras when better tested. I'm a heavy user of the chinook version of mplayer and want to confirm that this version is really very stable on OS 2008. Not a single mplayer crash so far.