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[Pete Woods <pete.woods@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In-case it wasn't clear to everyone (it wasn't to me), the PIN code you set
becomes phablet's UNIX password.

i.e. you can do "sudo -i" and enter that PIN there to become root from an
adb shell.


On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Zygmunt Krynicki <
zygmunt.krynicki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The raise of the 1234-protected adb is upon us ;-)
>
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > hi,
> > Am Freitag, den 05.09.2014, 10:55 +0200 schrieb Oliver Grawert:
> >> hi,
> >>
> >> last night the new adb landed in the utopic image (rtm to follow later
> >> today) as part of the new  developer mode option.  one security
> >> requirement of this is that adb does not start if there is no password
> >> set and that it only lets you in as phablet user (to protect sudo
> >> access)
> >
> > as was just pointed out to me on IRC, indeed a PIN will work the same as
> > a password adb wont make a difference here :)
> >
> > ciao
> >         oli
> >
> >
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