From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: John M Flinchbaugh <john@hjsoft.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: can't loadkeys anymore? (was Re: Linux-2.6.15.4 login errors)
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:50:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060216185029.00271d2b.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060216203007.GB17970@butterfly.hjsoft.com>
John M Flinchbaugh <john@hjsoft.com> wrote:
>
> This still leaves the question: Why is loadkeys no longer permitted to
> set the keymap for a tty the user currently owns? What if the user
> really does want to run loadkeys without having to be root (ie. to load
> dvorak keymap)?
The problem is that you could possibly change keys to do evil things, then
log out, leaving a trap for the next user.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-17 2:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-16 14:13 Linux-2.6.15.4 login errors linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-02-16 14:25 ` Marc Koschewski
2006-02-16 14:35 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-02-16 14:28 ` Dave Jones
2006-02-16 14:33 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-02-16 20:30 ` can't loadkeys anymore? (was Re: Linux-2.6.15.4 login errors) John M Flinchbaugh
2006-02-16 20:40 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-02-17 2:50 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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2006-02-17 0:11 ` Robert Hancock
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