On Friday, August 26, 2011 12:55:40 PM UTC-4, Steve Modica wrote:
>
> /dev/tty is root:root
> The default user is shell:shell
>
/dev/tty is assigned mode 666 in both AOSP versions that I checked and on my
device.
So it should be rw for any user including both 'shell' and application
UID's.
Your
I've been looking at adb ppp and I think Android has a bug.
pppd is root:shell.
/dev/tty is root:root
The default user is shell:shell
So it looks to me like /dev/tty *should* be root:shell and then adb ppp would
work to an unrooted android device. (with USB debugging enabled)
Why does /dev/tty n
On Aug 24, 2011, at 11:18 AM, Chris Stratton wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 24, 2011 9:55:55 AM UTC-4, Steve Modica wrote:
> Would a more acceptable solution for the generic case be to use port
> forwarding and non-root apps that just access that port?
> In that way, we could create simple apps
On Wednesday, August 24, 2011 9:55:55 AM UTC-4, Steve Modica wrote:
>
> Would a more acceptable solution for the generic case be to use port
> forwarding and non-root apps that just access that port?
> In that way, we could create simple apps to access our embedded device
> router and not requir
On Wednesday, August 24, 2011 9:55:55 AM UTC-4, Steve Modica wrote:
>
> Would a more acceptable solution for the generic case be to use port
> forwarding and non-root apps that just access that port?
> In that way, we could create simple apps to access our embedded device
> router and not requir
On Aug 23, 2011, at 10:03 PM, Chris Stratton wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 23, 2011 9:56:59 AM UTC-4, Steve Modica wrote:
> I swear I saw apps installing that said something like "this app requires
> superuser access" (perhaps sshdroid). What are those doing?
>
> They are leveraging a common aft
On Tuesday, August 23, 2011 9:56:59 AM UTC-4, Steve Modica wrote:
>
> I swear I saw apps installing that said something like "this app requires
> superuser access" (perhaps sshdroid). What are those doing?
>
They are leveraging a common aftermarket modification of Android,
specifically the addi
On Aug 22, 2011, at 10:14 PM, Chris Stratton wrote:
> On Monday, August 22, 2011 5:23:33 PM UTC-4, Steve Modica wrote:
> I would like to use pppd to create a connection to a generic android device.
> I'd like the user to be able to enabled USB debugging, connect to my
> platform, and then use ad
I would like to use pppd to create a connection to a generic android device.
I'd like the user to be able to enabled USB debugging, connect to my platform,
and then use adb ppp to connect.
>From what I can tell, the default android kernel supports this. (CONFIG_PPP
>and the tty has ppp suppor