ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Dave Morley <davmor2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 24 Apr 2015 14:15:09 +0200
Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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)

If there is no lock mechanism then all your data is their's anyway :D
> 
> > 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
> 
> 



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