ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx>]

hi,
Am Freitag, den 24.04.2015, 13:02 +0100 schrieb Dave Morley:
> On Fri, 24 Apr 2015 12:56:30 +0100
> Sam Bull <sam.hacking@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > sudo doesn't require a password, and outgoing ssh is available, so it
> > is fairly trivial to copy the log and upload it somewhere if the
> > phone is unlocked. Particularly as my phone doesn't have a lock
> > enabled, so there is no restriction on time.
> 
> Sudo does require either the pin or password that you use to unlock the
> device.
> 
> You also need to unlock the terminal with you pin/password to access
> anything outside of the terminal/home directory.

does that apply if the system has no lock mechanism set up at all  (i
must admit i haven't run a password/pin less phone to see how sudo or
the terminal behave in that scenario in a long time)

> I think Oliver meant turning ssh-server on, on the phone but I could be
> wrong.
> 
no, i actually meant to have a similar switch we use for the server
side ... you would have to toggle it once to allow outgoing ssh so it is
blocked by default.

ciao
	oli