Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751323AbWBQCs0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:48:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751329AbWBQCsZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:48:25 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:62375 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751323AbWBQCsZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:48:25 -0500 Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:50:29 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: John M Flinchbaugh Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: can't loadkeys anymore? (was Re: Linux-2.6.15.4 login errors) Message-Id: <20060216185029.00271d2b.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060216203007.GB17970@butterfly.hjsoft.com> References: <20060216142824.GD13188@redhat.com> <20060216203007.GB17970@butterfly.hjsoft.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-vine-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 645 Lines: 15 John M Flinchbaugh 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/