Rootsh v1.8

There have been several more-or-less user-friendly schemes over the years to allow root access In Maemo... this one, which appeared I think in Maemo4, is the simplest and easiest to date. Anyone who uses xterm should have it !

Not sure why you need this? The OpenSSH package installs SSH and forces a root password change. When you SSH in you can get root that way. This may be useful for local (xterm) usage, but you could always ssh to localhost for that too?

Nice idea. Just don't think it's needed for the N900.

Nokia-N900-42-11:~# apt-get install rootsh Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: n900-fmrx-enabler Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following NEW packages will be installed: rootsh 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded. Need to get 3156B of archives. After this operation, 32,8kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://repository.maemo.org fremantle/free rootsh 1.5 [3156B] Fetched 3156B in 0s (5547B/s) ySelecting previously deselected package rootsh. (Reading database ... 28522 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking rootsh (from .../archives/rootsh_1.5_armel.deb) ... Setting up rootsh (1.5) ... Nokia-N900-42-11:~# dpkg -r rootsh (Reading database ... 28524 files and directories currently installed.) Removing rootsh ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/rootsh.prerm: line 5: syntax error: "fi" unexpected (expecting "then") dpkg: error processing rootsh (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: rootsh

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Makes life so much easier, no need to flash developer mode on.

easy root access, just a must have.

Essential and excellent that it's so easy to install.

must-have for making the N900 your own.

Being root without jailbreaking your device is really good :)