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  • Ace! _SL/S@ani.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    You can totally use sudo if you’re rooted. Using su also allows you to acces your native shell instead of Termuxs

    • Derin@lemmy.beru.coEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      You’re totally right, but I wasn’t assuming they had a rooted phone.

      Is there any difference between the native shell and Termux’s? I just installed fish and chsh’ed it to default: after syncing over all my dotfiles it looks and acts as expected.

      • Ace! _SL/S@ani.socialEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Is there any difference between the native shell and Termux’s? I just installed fish and chsh’ed it to default: after syncing over all my dotfiles it looks and acts as expected.

        I did the same, but that’s not what I’m talking about.

        I don’t know for sure, but if I hat to guess I’d say that Termux uses chroot to emulate a more Linuxy experience by changing your root to /data/data/com.termux/files/ with it’s own bin, etc, lib and so on directories

        Using su you escape that chroot and start using your roms root directory at /

        I might be totally wrong with this, but that should hopefully clarify the way it behaves

        • Derin@lemmy.beru.coEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Aah, okay.

          I don’t mind the chroot too much, especially as you can just use Termux’s termux-setup-storage script for accessing files.

          But, yeah, I can see how one would want to use su for that!