Thread: Enable RD mode if you want to break your device
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cvmiller is offline cvmiller
2007-09-15 , 23:50
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Originally Posted by afdo View Post
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Originally Posted by mancy



Hello
Thanks for your reply.
i tried to apply this but after typing sudo gainroot on x-terminal i got the following msg.
Enable RD mode if you want to break your device.
How can i do this please?


Afdo
The gainroot script wants to "protect" you from yourself. So there is a feature in the scirpt which prints out this message if RD is not enabled. You will need to get to root in another way before you can edit the script.

I searched these forum's on how to do this. My way of sucess was to install dropbear server and client, and it allows one to ssh to the N800 as root (kind of a security hole there, so best to change the root password afterwards), and then you can edit the gainroot script.

I hope this helps,

Craig...
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