[Noisebridge-discuss] Android question: I want to share, via wifi, my Internet connection. What's the best way to do this?

[Taylor Alexander]

Heh, well, on a normal computer, you don't have to jump through hoops to
enable root access, so there's not much of a need to give the process a
name. Since some Android phones are tricky, its more involved and kinda
needed a name since people had to talk about it.

And Cyanogenmod is the name of a customized version of Android. Cyanogen is
the handle of the coder who started the project, though now many, many
people contribute to it!

-Taylor



On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Michael Shiloh
<michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com>wrote:

>
>
> On 06/08/2011 02:46 PM, Jonathan Lassoff wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Michael Shiloh
> > <michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com>  wrote:
> >> Just out of curiosity, what exactly does "rooting" do?
> >
> > In this context, you need to be root to modify the routing table or
> > netfilter code on the phone. Most (probably all) vendor-distributed
> > images have access to "root" on the phone totally locked down.
> >
>
> It's just a funny expression. I'm a Unix/Linux user from way back, and
> know about root access. We've never called enabling root login "rooting".
>
> M
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