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[Robert Park <robert.park@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 3:43 AM, Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2) adb will not allow root and only let you in as phablet user (you will
> have to use sudo like on any other ubuntu installation when doing
> administrative tasks)

I had a look over phablet-shell and the only thing it needs root for
is to start ssh. All the other things it does fall under `adb forward`
and `adb push` and should work fine without root privileges (in fact
it already has some code in the ssh key copy logic that has to chown
the copied files as the phablet user because having those files owned
by root is broken).

I guess if there was some way to enable ssh with some kind of trusted
helper (maybe the same option that turns adb on can also turn ssh on?)
then phablet-shell can live on.