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Re:Docker on (rooted) Android by bragr on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @01:48AM (#31749534)
Quibbling over terminology, but rooting and flashing system images, although commonly conflated, are different things. My understanding is that true rooting (exploiting a vuln to get root privs) is rare now because it is relatively common to be able to unlock the bootloader and flash images. They probably want to go with "unlocked" in place of "rooted".

https://gist.github.com/FreddieOliveira/efe850df7ff3951cb62d...

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Re:Docker on (rooted) Android by bubblethink on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @02:23AM (#31749736)
Rooting is used correctly in the article, as evidenced by sudo dockerd --iptables=false . You need to be able to run commands as sudo.
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Re:Docker on (rooted) Android by derkades on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @03:36AM (#31750141)
It is worth noting that getting root on Android does not require exploiting vulnerabilities like on iOS. At least, not for most reasonable phones with an unlocked (or unlockable) bootloader.

When flashing an operating system, some do allow root access, some don't, or some make it configurable in settings. Another option is to install a tool like Magisk after installing the operating system.

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Re:Docker on (rooted) Android by solarkraft on Friday June 17, 2022 @04:52AM (#31775682)
Rooting doesn't imply using a vulnerability, it just means obtaining root privileges. This is most commonly done through modifying the initrd by "flashing" Magisk (I think that's what it does, not entirely sure).
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