Hello & Greetings from Des Moines, IA
I want to start by commending you on a truly straight-forward and useful Fake-root tool. It is much simpler to install than say Ubuntu-in-Termux and links WORK which doesn't for the other. That having been said I want to qualify my inquiry as a TRUE Inquiry and not a request to change.
Before my retirement I worked for over 20 years as a UNIX System Admin (AIX, Solaris, Linux, even (ha-ha) DEC Tru 64!. Out of that experience I come out of it all with I believe is an over-arching sense of practicality. What does that mean?
I want to use your utility STRICTLY for 2 purposes:
- The Android Charging Controller - I hate "Chargie" because it is unreliable
- To run a shell script to thoroughly rid my phone of every blessed type of clutter-junk I can think of
Both of these (and anything else I might think of) is done strictly through shell.
Heretofore I relied on the "mtk-su" utility to accomplish this. I have no idea what led me to buy a TCL LX several years back but I lucked out in this. Now I look forward to a replacement unit (most likely a Motorola MOTO something or other) and I face up to - what can I use to replace to Mediatek CPU exploiting utility. Your program is perfect! Now my ignorance comes to the fore in tailoring this for my purposes, again in 2 parts:
- Provide FSU access to additional filesystems, folders, etc. -- until I owned an Android device I had absolutely NO IDEA how many ump-teen b'gillion places to OS stashes stuff in.
- Provide permission to those locations so I can "rid myself of this junk...."
#1 I have figured out -- THANK YOU for making that 2950-or-so lines of shell script so sensible for an over-the-hill SysAdmin to work with (using custom_fs_bindings+ etc)
#2 I am dealing with in the best way I can figure out - going the
drwxrwx--x. 55 system system 4096 Sep 30 2019 /data
drwx------. 6 root root 3488 Jun 9 2023 /data/adb
drwxrwx--x. 208 system system 20480 Mar 27 08:43 /data/data
for example - changing these to 777 so I can run the shell script w/o "permission denied". I am TOO MUCH of a coward to even THINK of changing user or group names. The ACC requirement is restricted to "/data/adb/vr25" but the "junk Cleaner" is, to quote an old Elton John tune, "hopping & Bopping" all over the place.
So, in light of my long-windedness, and considering your commitments, is there a better to deal with permissions? I had set myself the goal going forward of doing EVERY possible thing to run this without pre-existing root priviledge (ala mtk-su). Once again, thank you for everything. I can supply my cleaning script if you desire.
Yer old pal
Rich
Hello & Greetings from Des Moines, IA
I want to start by commending you on a truly straight-forward and useful Fake-root tool. It is much simpler to install than say Ubuntu-in-Termux and links WORK which doesn't for the other. That having been said I want to qualify my inquiry as a TRUE Inquiry and not a request to change.
Before my retirement I worked for over 20 years as a UNIX System Admin (AIX, Solaris, Linux, even (ha-ha) DEC Tru 64!. Out of that experience I come out of it all with I believe is an over-arching sense of practicality. What does that mean?
I want to use your utility STRICTLY for 2 purposes:
Both of these (and anything else I might think of) is done strictly through shell.
Heretofore I relied on the "mtk-su" utility to accomplish this. I have no idea what led me to buy a TCL LX several years back but I lucked out in this. Now I look forward to a replacement unit (most likely a Motorola MOTO something or other) and I face up to - what can I use to replace to Mediatek CPU exploiting utility. Your program is perfect! Now my ignorance comes to the fore in tailoring this for my purposes, again in 2 parts:
#1 I have figured out -- THANK YOU for making that 2950-or-so lines of shell script so sensible for an over-the-hill SysAdmin to work with (using custom_fs_bindings+ etc)
#2 I am dealing with in the best way I can figure out - going the
drwxrwx--x. 55 system system 4096 Sep 30 2019 /data
drwx------. 6 root root 3488 Jun 9 2023 /data/adb
drwxrwx--x. 208 system system 20480 Mar 27 08:43 /data/data
for example - changing these to 777 so I can run the shell script w/o "permission denied". I am TOO MUCH of a coward to even THINK of changing user or group names. The ACC requirement is restricted to "/data/adb/vr25" but the "junk Cleaner" is, to quote an old Elton John tune, "hopping & Bopping" all over the place.
So, in light of my long-windedness, and considering your commitments, is there a better to deal with permissions? I had set myself the goal going forward of doing EVERY possible thing to run this without pre-existing root priviledge (ala mtk-su). Once again, thank you for everything. I can supply my cleaning script if you desire.
Yer old pal
Rich