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2011-12-01
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have you try purging SSH from your device???
it works on my device....
it works on my device....
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If your user has sudo permissions you could simply execute:
which will give you a root prompt and from there you go about doing the normal things like:
(edit) I have forgotten to mention that if you have flasher tool handy (again you won't need to relfash your device), and you are not running windows. You can simply enable R&D mode and from there you boot the device (N900) up in R&D mode which will show you all the fancy green words at that nokia logo with an icon below the nokia logo. You then go into X-Terminal and you do:
That should give you a root prompt without any further questioning.
Last edited by tuxsavvy; 2011-12-02 at 09:53.
Code:
sudo -i
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passwd
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sudo gainroot
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is there a way to Reset SSH Root Password without reflashing??
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