On Friday, November 1, 2013 9:18:41 PM UTC+5:30, Daniel Hausknecht wrote: > > I suggest you get familiar with the general concept of root in Unix > systems. Combined with the fact that each app acts as a user the > consequences should be easy to see. > > On Wednesday, 30 October 2013 11:47:32 UTC+1, Prajit Patil wrote: >> >> Can some one suggest good article that describe what goes on internally >> while rooting a device and why something are not possible without rooting. >> > My query is once I root my device all my application run as root user but how do I get into root account (like in Linux/Unix we have password for root), I heard that for root access in android we require some key and rooting usually means overwriting that key with some known key am I right. As we have sudo permission in Linux/Unix where we can temporary change to root by authenticating why can't we have the same here.
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