alt Hacker NewsTrue but accessing your own files, pinging, network management etc aren't included in the things an Android terminal user can do. Hence the need for root.
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charcircuit • yesterday at 8:51 PM
That sounds like more of a need to be able to share files and folders with the terminal app and for there to be a ping command callable from nonroot added.
/mnt/shared has access to your personal files and pinging just works.
This is as the default 'droid' user, but I also have a root user (but that's only root within the terminal)