I’m trying to extract the APK file of an installed Android app WITHOUT root permissions. I thought that this was impossible, because all APK files for non-system-apps are located in /data/app, and accessing this folder requires root permission. Then I found that there are numerous apps in the Google Play store that seem to have … Read more
My app has a certain piece of functionality that will only work on a device where root is available. Rather than having this feature fail when it is used (and then show an appropriate error message to the user), I’d prefer an ability to silently check if root is available first, and if not,hide the … Read more
I’m writing a script that requires root level permissions, and I want to make it so that if the script is not run as root, it simply echoes “Please run as root.” and exits. Here’s some pseudocode for what I’m looking for: if (whoami != root) then echo “Please run as root” else (do stuff) … Read more
It’s very annoying to have this limitation on my development box, when there won’t ever be any users other than me. I’m aware of the standard workarounds, but none of them do exactly what I want: authbind (The version in Debian testing, 1.0, only supports IPv4) Using the iptables REDIRECT target to redirect a low … Read more
