I found the root folder! (i think)

[DroidMan85]

In this, I am using android terminal emulator by jack palevich
I decided to do some digging and see how far i got. I ended up getting a lot of error messages such as permission denieds and "cannot cd to blah blah blah" I kept track of a little of my digging and i think i found the root folder but cannot access it. Heres a little bit that i've documented. its not much, but its a start somewhere.

    
    $ ls
    swlite_stmt_journals
    config
    cache
    sdcard
    d
    etc
    system
    sys
    sbin
    proc
    init.sholes.rc
    init.rc
    init.goldfish.rc
    init
    default.prop
    data
    root
    dev
    
    $ls -l
    drwxrwxrwt root     root  2009-11-21     13:43         smt_journals
    drw-rw-rw-    root     root  1969-12-31     16:07         config
    drwxrwx---    system cache  2009-11-21     13:58            cache
    d---rwxr-x      system sdcard_rw    2009-11-21     13:38     sdcard
    lrwxrwxrwx    root    root     2009-11-17     21:57 d -> /sys/kernel/debug
    lrwxrwxrwx    root    root     2009-11-17     21:57 etc -> /system/etc
    drwxr-xr-x    root    root     2009-10-20  20:03        system
    drwxr-xr-x    root    root     1969-12-31     16:00     sys
    drwxr-x---    root    root     1969-12-31      16:00     sbin
    dr-xr-xr-x    root    root     1969-12-31     16:00     proc
    -rwxr-x---    root    root    6226    1969-12-31     16:00     init.sholes.rc
    -rwxr-x---    root    root   12377    1969-12-31     16:00     init.rc
    -rwxr-x---    root    root    1677    1969-12-31     16:00     init.goldfish.rc
    -rwxr-x---    root    root 103100    1969-12-31     16:00     init
    -rw-r--r--    root    root    118    1969-12-31     16:00     default.prop
    drwxrwx--x   system    system    2009-11-20     21:18     data
    drwx------    root    root     2009-10-20     16:03     root
    drwxr-xr-x    root    root     2009-11-17     21:57     dev
    
    $ls -s
    0 swlite_stmt_journals
    2  ./config
    2  ./cache
    32  ./sdcard
    0  ./d
    0    ./etc
    2    ./system
    0    ./sys
    0    ./sbin
    0    ./proc
    8    ./init.sholes.rc
    16    ./init.rc
    4    ./init.goldfish.rc
    104    ./init
    4    ./default.prop
    2    ./data
    0    ./root
    0    ./dev
    
    $ cd swlite_stmt_journals

(when running ls commands, it appears to be blank)

    $ cd ..
    $ cd config
    cd: can’t cd to config

also cant cd to cache, etc, system, sys, sbin, proc, init.sholes.rc, init.rc and more
but they might also be data files. Anyone know?

$ cd data
    opendir failed, Permission denied
$
$ ls /data
    opendir failed, Permission denied

I encourage everyone to play around and see what can be found.

I know with linux, you can make yourself a root user by running visudo and adding

username   ALL = (ALL) ALL

right under

root ALL = (ALL) ALL

I wonder if we can do that with the droid also.



This is my first post everyone and I did some digging. Im not super familiar with linux, but i have been running the fedora os in my home for atleast a year.

Chown works, but I am unsure of the username that would be used. chmod works. the clear command DOESNOT work and neither do the rpm, apt-get, or yum commands. Read and cat also work. Anyone find other commands? Has anyone been able to read the root folder yet?

[Xerozix]

Awesome. That's pretty cool. If you look at the source code, you might be able to pull up some more info on switching to root or something. I'm actually wondering if it's possible to create an SSH server on the phone or something like that

[DroidMan85]

I thought I might have seen some apps similar to that.... but im not completely sure

**Edit** is connect bot what you're looking for?

[Xerozix]

No haha. Connect bot is the app for SSHing to OTHER unix devices, its a client.

Pretty much making a SSH Server app is having it so that you can experiment with your phone from your computer using your favorite SSH client (putty etc.)

That would make it MUCH easier to type.

[DroidMan85]

ahhh i see... yeah... typing in the terminal is a pain as of right now. In the terminal app that i used for this, there is no on screen keyboard. sometimes the onscreen keyboard is easier to type fast with

[s-one]

Cool!! I'd like to modify the media folder with my own media files so every time I mount I don't get the default media notifications. Like my ()wn

[DroidMan85]

I was thinking the same way, but modifying the eye in boot-up to have flames. Sort of like having an evil-droid phone.

[Xerozix]

Now, I'd learn the Droid programming language and develop a SSH Server (I'm a code junkie) but I honestly don't have the time.

Stupid Droid won't mount to my mac lol

[DroidMan85]

if you know java, you should be able to figure it out. I'm in the process of learning java, myself, right now

[daddycat31]

I know from rooting my G1 that it is done through an app called Terminal Emulator and another one called Superuser Permission. I simply followed the directions that the dev posted so that the extent of my knowledge on that. Hope that helps cuase I can't wait to root this baby.