Re: KDSKBENT errors

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On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 09:23:10PM +0200, Petr Danecek wrote:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > > Your kbd package needs updating.
 > > 
 > > 		Dave
 > 
 > thank you for your response. May I ask you for a little more informative
 > answer? Even if the kbd package needs updating (i will check this right
 > away), everything works fine with the default Fedora kernel. 
 > I do not understand why updating from kernel 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-i686 to
 > linux-2.6.15.7 should result in such a strange behaviour??

Because the behaviour changed in 2.6.15.  It was a security issue iirc,
where a user could program a key to do something after they had logged out.
2.6.15 closed that hole, but broke userspace.  Hence, an updated kbd that
did things differently was needed.

		Dave

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