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Subject: Re: Breakage from patch: Only root should be able to set the
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Maw, 2005-03-01 at 11:47, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> A nonprivileged user could inject mouse movement and/or keystrokes
> (using the sunkbd driver) into the input subsystem, taking over the
> console/X, where another user is logged in.

Ouch. Ok that explains much.