Rooting same as running your phone always as root?

[stchman]

Hello all. I was wanting to know if rooting your Android phone is the same as running a Linux based OS as a root or superuser?

If yes this is VERY dangerous!!!

Thanks.

 

[Slug]

SU permission is granted on a per-app (or even per-instance) basis. Only those apps that you as user allow to run as SU will do so.

 

[Xyro]

Yep. You can grant apps SU permissions and get SU access in terminal apps.

 

[stchman]

Ok, I understand now. So you can grant apps SU permissions on an app by app basis like Windows' UAC. That makes more sense. I was under the impression that when you "rooted" a phone it always ran a root account.

Thanks.

 

[dan330]

ok.. so now I want to ask about the other side of this discussion..

why??? why is it a problem.. why is it sooo dangerous?

(not being silly... I really am interested)

 

[danalingga]

ok.. so now I want to ask about the other side of this discussion..

why??? why is it a problem.. why is it sooo dangerous?

(not being silly... I really am interested)

May be because any application will be able to access the entire phone system.

 

[dan330]

well that is what we do..when we "allow" it to do things... ever read the installation screen right before it starts? sometimes we give it full access to a lot of stuff.