--- Ralph Thomas <ralpht@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:09:45 -0800 (PST), Peter Karlsson ><pk@mailamig.nu> wrote:
>> Agreed. The user (root) should have complete control of what
>> it does and doesn't do.

>In the case of input devices, the "user" should be the person
>operating the computer. Different users of the same computer >may have

I meant user or root but ultimately root should be the one in
complete control to be able to stop, as an example, usb memory
sticks from being used (for companies who need to protect
their data, for instance). In a private machine where, usually,
root=user this is not a problem...

And another thing, if there is no way to exclusively lock
input devices, is this not a security problem? I.e. if
a user in X is typing some sensitive information into an X
client and there's another non-X client "sniffing" this typing.

>different devices or settings. That could mean having some user >daemon
>that processes hardware events and sends events to the X server >(and
>you could then go and wire the user daemon up to D-BUS or a GUI >or
>something).

Ok. But see above...

Best regards

Peter K


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