adb does not have permission to access my Atrix?

The Atrix does not have the option to allow installing from unknown (ie: non-Market) locations.  As such, I was unsure what I would see when I tried to install APKs from the command line...

malachi@onyx:~$ adb devices
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
List of devices attached
????????????    no permissions

Not good... but, surely there is a way around that...?

Turns out it is quite simple really....





1. Stop the existing ADB server.

malachi@onyx:~$ adb kill-server

2. Start adb's server as root.  You could try sudo adb instead, but I didn't...

malachi@onyx:~$ sudo su - root
root@onyx:~# adb start-server
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
root@onyx:~# exit
logout

3. Run adb again... this time, with root running the server, it will work.

malachi@onyx:~$ adb devices
List of devices attached
TA20704PWJ    device