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Adam B. · 04-30-2008, 01:14 PM

Given the delicate nature of the e-ink screen, I'd be worried about lending out the iLiad...

But, it may be possible to secure the iLiad through the terminal.

I'd reccomend:

Request Shell Access from iRex
Setup Dropbear on the iLiad, edit the registry, change the extension used for shell scripts to something other than sh (for a bit of security through obscurity)
Change the permissions on the registry.xml to disallow writing (not sure what problems, if any, this would cause with the contentlister)
Remove dropbear

That should effectively prevent anyone from changing the settings on the iLiad.

04-30-2008, 01:14 PM	#3
Adam B. Addicted to Porting Posts: 1,697 Karma: 7194 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Indianapolis, IN Device: iRex iLiad, Nokia 770, Samsung i760	Given the delicate nature of the e-ink screen, I'd be worried about lending out the iLiad... But, it may be possible to secure the iLiad through the terminal. I'd reccomend: Request Shell Access from iRex Setup Dropbear on the iLiad, edit the registry, change the extension used for shell scripts to something other than sh (for a bit of security through obscurity) Change the permissions on the registry.xml to disallow writing (not sure what problems, if any, this would cause with the contentlister) Remove dropbear That should effectively prevent anyone from changing the settings on the iLiad.