Guest ZTE Blade_ Posted January 3, 2011 Report Posted January 3, 2011 currently i'm on android 2.2 custom rom how can i totally remove root privileges?
Guest That-Guy Posted January 3, 2011 Report Posted January 3, 2011 Why would you want to? (just being nosey) :unsure:
Guest ZTE Blade_ Posted January 3, 2011 Report Posted January 3, 2011 No Easy Way. really, i'll do it in a hard way if you guide me or point me to the right instructions otherwise i'll have to revert back to the unrooted stock rom, so please help me Why would you want to? (just being nosey) :unsure: it is extremely risky to run a rooted rom for daily use besides i have very sensitive data to protect
Guest Fi5h Posted January 3, 2011 Report Posted January 3, 2011 (edited) No Easy Way. Can't you just flash the stock boot image back on?? Edited January 3, 2011 by Fi5h
Guest Sebastian404 Posted January 3, 2011 Report Posted January 3, 2011 (edited) Do you understand what you mean about a rooted device? Every *nix based device in the world has a root account, its not really a security risk.... reverting to stock is actually worse than some of the customized roms, they ALL leave the /system partition mounted in RW, thats a bigger security risk than having a rootable device. besides i have very sensitive data to protect Your doing it wrong, if your data is that sensitive putting it on a portable device..... not a good idea Edited January 3, 2011 by Sebastian404
Guest ZTE Blade_ Posted January 3, 2011 Report Posted January 3, 2011 Do you understand what you mean about a rooted device? Every *nix based device in the world has a root account, its not really a security risk.... reverting to stock is actually worse than some of the customized roms, they ALL leave the /system partition mounted in RW, thats a bigger security risk than having a rootable device. so there's no way to have a system unrooted and mounted as ro? do i have to buy a brand new device if i want to revert to its initial state?
Guest jamidodger1 Posted January 3, 2011 Report Posted January 3, 2011 1. Why Is It SOOOO Important To Have It Non-Rooted? 2. No You Just Re-flash Stock ROM No-Offence
Guest Ash_P Posted January 3, 2011 Report Posted January 3, 2011 it is extremely risky to run a rooted rom for daily use No it isn't. besides i have very sensitive data to protect 1- Don't have very senstitive data on the phone. 2- It makes no odds if it's rooted or not. It would take 5 seconds for a thief to gain root access through an exploit
Guest ZTE Blade_ Posted January 3, 2011 Report Posted January 3, 2011 1. Why Is It SOOOO Important To Have It Non-Rooted? 2. No You Just Re-flash Stock ROM No-Offence thank you all for your interest i'm completely disappointed ill revert back to stock and check if /system is ro, fingers crossed
Guest Stuart_f Posted January 3, 2011 Report Posted January 3, 2011 thank you all for your interest i'm completely disappointed ill revert back to stock and check if /system is ro, fingers crossed I'm struggling to see how this makes it more secure. If I get hold of your phone then I'll download Androot and, in 30 seconds, I'll root your stock ROM. Either that or I'll just remove your MicroSD card and read the data off that leaving you none the wiser that it's happened. If the issue is not with physical access but remote hacking of the device then any number of apps can have read access to the phone, they don't need root access to do that and if I was really, seriously trying to target you then I could probably manage a man-in-the-middle attack and exploit the stock ROM without much bother. If you have sensitive data on such a small, portable and easily lost device then you are doing it wrong. Host the data on a secure server and access it (If you really, really have to) via an encrypted connection - better yet, don't access it at all on an internet-connected device.
Guest StevenHarperUK Posted January 3, 2011 Report Posted January 3, 2011 Best choice is to Truecrypt a volume and put it on the Phone - USB Mount The single file is the encrypted drive and can be mounted anywhere - on any OS
Guest Fi5h Posted January 3, 2011 Report Posted January 3, 2011 (edited) Maybe someone can explain to me how the partitions work cause up until now I have though the 'boot' partition where we flash the 'superboot.mcri' image is what roots the phone. The 'recovery' for 'clockwork' and the 'system' for our ROMS. I thought it was the flashing the boot partition that gave you root access and thought just flashing that back to stock would undo the root?? If not what actually does that initial flash to the boot partition do, and do we really have to do that if the roms themselves give root access. Home that makes sense :unsure: Edited January 3, 2011 by Fi5h
Guest ZTE Blade_ Posted January 3, 2011 Report Posted January 3, 2011 fyi, i tried to erase boot partition hopping 'superboot.mcri' image was on it but had no success
Guest Stuart_f Posted January 4, 2011 Report Posted January 4, 2011 I still can't help thinking that you are approaching this the wrong way and whether the user has normal or superuser access is irrelevant when you are trying to secure sensitive data. You should be looking at encrypting the complete dataset or better yet, finding a way to not have it on the phone at all or mitigate the risk by only holding an encrypted subset of the data on the phone for the task in hand.
Guest Ash_P Posted January 4, 2011 Report Posted January 4, 2011 Maybe someone can explain to me how the partitions work cause up until now I have though the 'boot' partition where we flash the 'superboot.mcri' image is what roots the phone. The 'recovery' for 'clockwork' and the 'system' for our ROMS. I believe the superboot image contains a script which copied over the su binaries on boot up to the /system partition, so it rooted it for you. If not what actually does that initial flash to the boot partition do, and do we really have to do that if the roms themselves give root access. Superboot was a hack made before Clockwork was running on the phones, so no you now you don't need to use superboot at all. In fact when you install a ROM it overwrites boot anyway.
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