Technical: 1.1 does not enable user ping

[zartemis]

I started up websharing (I use the pay version, though) and noticed it could no longer verify the wifi connection because it could not ping the router. You can turn off this checking and still use websharing but I thought it odd.

So..... for the other unix/android geeks for whom this 'feature' annoys:

I checked out the ping command in a terminal emulator on the Nook and sure enough, you have to be root to use it, it is not setuid. So I changed it back in terminal (after using root explorer to mount the system dir r/w):

$su
#chmod 4755 /system/bin/ping
#exit
$

And, of course, this makes ping work as well as websharing's wifi checker (assuming some security rules don't set it back as they appear to be setting back usb debugging).

[zartemis]

It's too early to tell for sure, but ever since I changed ping to setuid, my wifi has never failed to connect automatically on wake. And it's gone to sleep several times as well as been rebooted.

You don't suppose that BN engineers have some sort of wifi checker themselves that relies on ping and when they removed setuid from the program in order to make the Nook more secure with prospective 3rd party apps that they borked their own stuff .....

Anyhoo ... let's give a few days. 5 hours is not enough time to be sure.

[volwrath]

Heh interesting stuff