On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 03:46:19PM +0000, James Grimwood wrote: > To become root on my N800 I use ssh and xterm. I installed ssh so I > could contact my other computers, but it's also quite handy doing > > ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > So you could write a little shell script that did this and run that. > Doesn't require editing any files (which need root access to be able > to do in the first place, and if you can get root then why do you need > to modify the system to become root again? ;-)
So that you can get root in an easier way.
sudo apt-get install foo
is considerably easier to type with the vkb than
ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
rootme
apt-get install foo
exit
> Now the hard part is typing in the passwords using the onscreen
> keyboard. Entering autogenerated mixed-case passwords is tricky.
You do know that you can shift the case temporarily if you drag the key
upwards?
Marius Gedminas
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