<clever>
samueldr: i wasnt aware you could boot something with fastboot like that
<clever>
though i havent experimented with the bootloader much, i tend to have too much data on the device to want to risk it
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<andi->
samueldr: nice! Reminds me of starting to experiment with whatever is needed to run nixos on the librem5 when it finally arrives in January.
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<samueldr>
hah, the postmarketos logo being green, and using only black and gray, RGB vs. BGR framebuffer devices is irrelevant for their splash screen
<gchristensen>
lol
<samueldr>
*swear words* why's it so hard to get an ssh server to login as root without auth
<samueldr>
I just want a shell on this initrd :/
<samueldr>
(networking works using usb gadget)
<gchristensen>
openssh tries really really hard to not :P
<samueldr>
dropbear here!
<samueldr>
I'm sure it would be harder on openssh
<samueldr>
though right now the issue is I'm blind
<gchristensen>
my first response "I didn't know that"
<samueldr>
or I'm dumb
<samueldr>
I might have been trying to login to my host machine
<gchristensen>
:D
<samueldr>
(not literally blind, I don't have serial for that consumer device)
<gchristensen>
(i'm assuming you can speak, too)
<samueldr>
yes :)
<makefu>
samueldr: dropbear stores the authorized host file at /etc/dropbear/authorized_keys afair
<samueldr>
makefu: that was my last resort
<samueldr>
though
<samueldr>
I *was* logging-in to my host machine
<samueldr>
instead of the device
* samueldr
begins dismantling the pile of hacks
<samueldr>
now I'd really like a different aarch64 android device supported by postmarketOS to validate that my work is portable across devices
<samueldr>
using `nc` from busybox I was able to see why it failed
<samueldr>
started it like this: dropbear -RFE 2>&1
<samueldr>
[304] Aug 22 01:40:18 Login attempt for nonexistent user from 172.16.42.2:41776
<samueldr>
nonexistent user being root
<samueldr>
ah, I wasn't clear, using `nc` to create a reverse shell