Originally Posted by dagentooboy

That's why we have to be careful with root.... anyone have sshd working yet?

I got sshd working, but I cant login because either we dont know the password, or there isnt a password and a password is required for ssh.

I got everything working in the emulator now since I dont want to chance bricking my phone. I will create a passwd file in a sec and see what happens. I doubt it will work.

One thing of interest I did find is the file /data/data/com.google.android.googleapps/databases/accounts.db. It contains your gmail username, encrypted password, and sha1 hash of the password.

try to add a user?

I am going to tinker as soon as I get home, nice to see root is finally available!

and it's funny I was trying to run telnetd through adb and connect to the localhost but couldn't get it to work :P

Maybe i miss something, actualy i don't have g1 to check, but it works with emulator. All we need it's android sdk and adb tool.

1. Connect phone to pc
2. run in tools folder adb shell
3. and then
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

now you have /system mounted as rw. Please someone check it on phone.

Originally Posted by vovkab

Please someone check it on phone.

That works fine on the phone (or more simply "mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system")

And to make life easier:
http://benno.id.au/blog/2007/11/14/android-busybox

I suspect you can get dropbear working by creating /etc/passwd with:
root::0:0:root:/root:/data/busybox/ash
(Warning: if that works there will be -no- password!)

If someone wants to post hints on building it (I've already got the platform built) I'll give it a go.. I'm not afraid of my phone

Originally Posted by vovkab

Maybe i miss something, actualy i don't have g1 to check, but it works with emulator. All we need it's android sdk and adb tool.

1. Connect phone to pc
2. run in tools folder adb shell
3. and then
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

now you have /system mounted as rw. Please someone check it on phone.

The emulator has root already, thats why you can remount it as read write. You can't remount as read write on a real phone without root.

Its a no-go for creating the passwd file

yeah i just tried it straight on the phone since i'm still in my 14 days hehe

ok so thats what OPEN SOURCE is? what takes three buttons cd\ in windows takes all this work, internet and a software to do?

i got bored and tried su under busybox via telnet...look what I got.

su: unknown id: root

Looks like the root account doesn't actually exist...It seems that everything just runs with root rights, but under a different username.

Im gonna try setting a bruteforce loose on it to see what happens :P. I'd welcome anyone else to try and crack it.

i got a g1 with insurance and another in the stash, im willing to test out anything for those scared of bricking their phone, but i not much of a linux guy i can get the root thru telnet and thats about it. if any one wants me to try something pm or post instruction on how and what to do.