[PLUG] /bin/loadkeys Runs Only As Root

[tonyr]

Rich,

I don't know whether or not this helps. I'm running Mandriva 2006 at the 
moment
(haven't looked on my Ubuntu laptop yet). The* loadkeys* man page here says
anyone having access to /dev/console can load keymaps. On this system,
/dev/console shows
*crw------- 1 tonyr root 5, 1 Oct 31 08:08 /dev/console
*(owned by me). It's something to look at.

- tony

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Rich Shepard wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, tonyr wrote:
>
>> Stupid and obvious suggestions/questions category: Does /bin/loadkeys 
>> work
>> if you rename the file and run it manually from the command line? Are
>> there any error messages produced if you run /bin/loadkeys on ~/.keymap
>> from the command line? Is ~ expanding to what it should?
>
>
> tony,
>
> If run as a user, then there are permission errors. If run by root, no
> problem.
>
> However, /bin/loadkeys is world executable and that's why I don't
> understand the errors and lost ability to properly run.
>
> Rich
>