mksh?

canpitt27 · Oct 30, 2012

Since updating SuperSU, it started requesting permission to "mksh (1000)". I deny it everytime it shows. It seems to have something to do with wifi. Everytime it connects to wifi that's when it pops up.
The file mksh is in \system\bin
Any idea what mksh is?

IceDragon59 · Oct 30, 2012

canpitt27 said:
Since updating SuperSU, it started requesting permission to "mksh (1000)". I deny it everytime it shows. It seems to have something to do with wifi. Everytime it connects to wifi that's when it pops up.
The file mksh is in \system\bin
Any idea what mksh is?

Other people seem to be having the same problem. All I can tell you is that the file exists for me, non-rooted, in '/system/bin/'. It might have something to do with shell/command line.

junkmail9 · Oct 30, 2012

This is also being discussed at length in the SuperSU thread.

andybones · Oct 30, 2012

canpitt27 said:
Since updating SuperSU, it started requesting permission to "mksh (1000)". I deny it everytime it shows. It seems to have something to do with wifi. Everytime it connects to wifi that's when it pops up.
The file mksh is in \system\bin
Any idea what mksh is?

I took a look in my superSU app and it seems at some point I gave the mksh permissions lol, I don't remember it popping it, so I deleted it and am waiting for it to pop up again. No idea what the hell it is

canpitt27 · Oct 30, 2012

andybones said:
I took a look in my superSU app and it seems at some point I gave the mksh permissions lol, I don't remember it popping it, so I deleted it and am waiting for it to pop up again. No idea what the hell it is

It happens for me when I'm connected to wifi and I either reboot or just turn wifi off and back on and let it reconnect. Happens everytime.

jackgibbs · Oct 30, 2012

yeah, this just popped up for me as well on my evo lte, along with jackpal.androidterm, which google tells me is terminal emulator. so I'm guessing something got borked in the supersu update.

andybones · Oct 30, 2012

maybe, the dev may have done this on purpose to allow for my control over the device.

or it's a issue with the newest SuperSU update

canpitt27 · Nov 6, 2012

Well I finally gave up on the latest Supersu (.97). Two things started happening after updating:
1. At home I use wifi. When I would leave the house the statusbar still showed I was connected to wifi. Even 20 miles away. (It was connected to mobile, just showed wifi)
2. After rebooting, the phone would not see the ext sdcard. Rebooting again would usually fix it. This didn't happen on every reboot, maybe half of the time.

The new update started asking for permission to mksh. I tried both granting and denying and it didnt seem to make a difference either way.
These did not happen before updating supersu, and after reverting back to version .96 these problems went away. I don't know what else to blame.

andybones · Nov 6, 2012

canpitt27 said:
Well I finally gave up on the latest Supersu (.97). Two things started happening after updating:
1. At home I use wifi. When I would leave the house the statusbar still showed I was connected to wifi. Even 20 miles away. (It was connected to mobile, just showed wifi)
2. After rebooting, the phone would not see the ext sdcard. Rebooting again would usually fix it. This didn't happen on every reboot, maybe half of the time.

The new update started asking for permission to mksh. I tried both granting and denying and it didnt seem to make a difference either way.
These did not happen before updating supersu, and after reverting back to version .96 these problems went away. I don't know what else to blame.

weird, I have it denied, and hasn't been a problem since.

canpitt27 · Nov 6, 2012

andybones said:
weird, I have it denied, and hasn't been a problem since.

I'm gonna give it another shot today and deny it right from the start.

Aldo101t · Nov 14, 2012

Anyone ever figure out what this is, idenied it, might be something to do with global??

wmuflyer · Nov 14, 2012

Looks like it's the latest update from SU

Chainfire still suggests deny at this point.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=33550523

nitsuj17 · Nov 14, 2012

viperLTE 2.0.0 uses its own VenomSuperUser app, so no issues

ninfaboy · Feb 26, 2013

Go to SuperSU , long press on mksh and on Notifications turn off. Is the and of Popup...

skpManiac · Mar 12, 2013

ninfaboy said:
Go to SuperSU , long press on mksh and on Notifications turn off. Is the and of Popup...

Didn't know you could do that, glad its now not nagging me

Thanks

recurringintensity · Mar 22, 2013

mksh is the predecessor of pdksh/ksh. i think pdksh stands for public domain korn shell, and is pretty much used for migration to mksh. all are from the at&t ksh.

is it a symbolic link? wonder what the source looks like, is it possible to post it or its rc file?

0xicl33n · Mar 10, 2014

Here i

Here i go Necormancing, but this is something every single android user should know:

MKSH is the default "posix compliant shell" of android as of jellybean, its part of the internal operating system.

Dont **** with it. Leave it alone. Give it all the permissions it needs

https://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm

In android, SH does in fact symbolically link to mksh. Ie, when you type sh in android, its really bringing up mksh

mirabilos · May 9, 2014

more on mksh and root

I’ve just summarised this in http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=52526690#post52526690 too.

mksh is used as system shell in Android, and just the “messenger” for another programm running a command as root.

---------- Post added at 12:19 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:46 AM ----------

Sure, current summary here.

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