Hi folks,
I’ve written a short ansible code to adjust some setting on my Xperia10.
If there is someone interested in it have a look at my repo github.com/krisko/xperia10
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Eeehrm nope nope nope no thanks.
Isn’t there a way for Ansible to work securely? E.g. using key-based ssh-auth or something like that?
Anyway, I like your efforts, (even if I’m more of a puppet guy myself 
)!
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Hello,
to explain, ssh to the phone is done via ssh key (with login user nemo), but gaining root access can be done in three ways:
- ssh directly to root - not very secure to enable ssh to root account
- su - is not present on SailfishOS (devel-su is, but cannot by used by ansible)
- sudo - can be installed on the phone
Anyway when you login as nemo user, switching to root is a matter of executing devel-su. I see no, or little difference between executing sudo /bin/sh (or similar done by ansible) to gain root access or devel-su. Either way you need to enter password to authenticate.
why? you need a sudoer to operate…
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- create a
devel-subecome plugin for ansible. This would be the most legal method according to the ansible logic and would be most transparent for the ansible developer/end user.
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