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[Sam Bull <sam@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday, 24 April 2015 13:02:48 BST, Dave Morley wrote:
> 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.

Alright, would be nice to be able to lock this down, without having to have 
the phone locked though. I'm not going to add a passphrase that I have to 
enter everytime I open the phone, but would like to have a passphrase for 
sudo. I made a proposal for a more fine-grained security mechanism awhile 
back.

http://blog.sambull.org/phone-app-lock

This would help with securing the important parts of the phone without 
requiring the user to unlock the phone everytime they use it at all. Plus, 
would allow them to pass the phone to a friend without unlocking it.

> I think Oliver meant turning ssh-server on, on the phone but I could be
> wrong.

The other email, that I didn't quote, he said outgoing ssh probably won't 
work in the future when new firewall walls or something are added.



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