visiting01 | # 1 | 2011-10-16, 13:29 | Report

How to gain root privileges on N9?

I have turned developer mode on and I can access a terminal.

(Sorry if this question has been responded already.)

Manatus | # 2 | 2011-10-16, 13:41 | Report

Type 'devel-su'. Password is 'rootme' if I remember correctly. Though it still doesn't have full privileges to everywhere, you can at least kill the ads from web pages with special hosts-file etc.

Dave999 | # 3 | 2011-10-16, 14:02 | Report

yeah, its not like the mighty n900

Alfred | # 4 | 2011-10-16, 14:30 | Report

or YOU Chuck

visiting01 | # 5 | 2011-10-16, 15:18 | Report

Thank you for the information!
It worked.

Makeclick | # 6 | 2011-10-24, 16:32 | Report

is there rootsh like N900? or must i always devel-su and rootme?

RobbH | # 7 | 2011-10-27, 00:29 | Report

Can anyone elaborate on the limitations of root access on the N9? What privileges are missing?

reinob | # 8 | 2011-10-27, 08:19 | Report

@RobbH,

Look here: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=76635
and here: http://wiki.maemo.org/N950/Aegis-notes

Basically, root is not a super-user anymore, but has to comply with whatever policy is defined by Nokia.

RobbH | # 9 | 2011-10-27, 10:59 | Report

Thanks. I don't yet have a good understanding of Aegis, but it appears to me that any privileges users have can be taken away at any time, by Nokia.

Is that a reasonably accurate summary of the problem?

reinob | # 10 | 2011-10-27, 11:55 | Report

Yup. It's supposed to protect the N9 from its owner