Re: KDSKBENT errors - solved

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Dear Dave,
thank you for your advice and explanation. Updating kbd package helped.
Petr

On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 15:28 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> 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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