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Originally Posted by Eisfreak7
Thats good to know, and a bit of a relief 
Thank you for your work by the way, just got my kindle today and to a big part thanks to you, knc1 and Branch Delay I now truly own a capable linux e-ink device instead of just being able to use an amazon-locked e-reader 
Am I correct that everything is running under the root user? I know a kindle isn't an especially security-sensitive device, but that feels wrong anyway. |
No - not everything.
Most things "GUI" are running as "framework" -
But a lot is still running as 'root'.
Security sensitive?
You just visited a web-site that caused software on your Kindle to be run as 'root' didn't you?
Amazon/Lab126 thought they had us under control when they started running large portions of the firmware as a user OTHER THAN 'root'.
Ah, the power of Open Source software -
NiLeJe took the source to the standard 'su' (Switch User) utility and patched it so that it did not do any password lookups.
(Which is how KUAL (framework:javauser) can run scripts as 'root').
Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, Lab126.
Say again: "What security" ?
