Re: How to Get Root Access on the N810

2008-06-25 Thread ext Jesper Cheetah
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:04:38AM +0300, Eero Tamminen wrote: Hi, ext Jesper Cheetah wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:48:00PM -0400, Jonathan Greene wrote: install becomeroot - http://www.gronmayer.com/it/dl.php?id=136 Are you sure that's still necessary? I'm fairly confident that for the

Re: How to Get Root Access on the N810

2008-06-25 Thread David Greaves
Eero Tamminen wrote: Hi, ext Jesper Cheetah wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:48:00PM -0400, Jonathan Greene wrote: install becomeroot - http://www.gronmayer.com/it/dl.php?id=136 Are you sure that's still necessary? I'm fairly confident that for the last.. several firmware versions, at

Re: How to Get Root Access on the N810

2008-06-25 Thread David Greaves
Rick Bilonick wrote: My approach has been (just naturally did this) * install ssh server/client * type in root passwd * ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Done. No CAL, pills or anything else (though it does look like I cant use su/sudo) David How do you get to the point of setting a root

Re: How to Get Root Access on the N810

2008-06-25 Thread Alfredo J. Fabretti
Also the old and messy way was enabling RD mode, editing gainroot script and removing the IF condition. After that you can disable RD mode and use sudo gainroot without RD mode. On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 8:49 AM, David Greaves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick Bilonick wrote: My approach has been

Re: How to Get Root Access on the N810

2008-06-25 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext ext Jesper Cheetah wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:04:38AM +0300, Eero Tamminen wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:48:00PM -0400, Jonathan Greene wrote: install becomeroot - http://www.gronmayer.com/it/dl.php?id=136 Are you sure that's still necessary? I'm fairly confident that for

Re: How to Get Root Access on the N810

2008-06-25 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:42:31PM -0400, Rick Bilonick wrote: How do you establish root access on the N810? I don't recall setting up a root password. When I type: su - It says applet requires root privileges. If I try to use sudo, it asks for a password. Here's what I do: * Enable

Re: How to Get Root Access on the N810

2008-06-25 Thread John Holmblad
Marius, for those who use Windows Desktops, PuTTY is a nice SSH/Telnet client app for use with the Internet Tablets after installing the SSH server on the I.T.. Here for those not already familiar with PuTTY is the url to the www site for it:

How to Get Root Access on the N810

2008-06-24 Thread Rick Bilonick
How do you establish root access on the N810? I don't recall setting up a root password. When I type: su - It says applet requires root privileges. If I try to use sudo, it asks for a password. Once I get past this, how do I install apt? Rick B.

Re: How to Get Root Access on the N810

2008-06-24 Thread Jonathan Greene
install becomeroot - http://www.gronmayer.com/it/dl.php?id=136 then sudo gainroot On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:42 PM, Rick Bilonick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you establish root access on the N810? I don't recall setting up a root password. When I type: su - It says applet requires root

Re: How to Get Root Access on the N810

2008-06-24 Thread Jesper Cheetah
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:48:00PM -0400, Jonathan Greene wrote: install becomeroot - http://www.gronmayer.com/it/dl.php?id=136 Are you sure that's still necessary? I'm fairly confident that for the last.. several firmware versions, at least since xterm became default, I've been able to just

Re: How to Get Root Access on the N810

2008-06-24 Thread Jonathan Greene
I've used it twice today in Diablo On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:58 PM, Jesper Cheetah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:48:00PM -0400, Jonathan Greene wrote: install becomeroot - http://www.gronmayer.com/it/dl.php?id=136 Are you sure that's still necessary? I'm fairly