[PLUG] Loadkeys won't

[Eric Wilhelm]

# from Rich Shepard
# on Tuesday 09 December 2008 11:04:

>   Good start, I think. To answer your second question first, when I
> run as root, 'loadkeys ~/.keymap' runs. When I run as a user, it does
> not.
>
>   On both hosts (this works on the big box), /dev/console has perms
> of crw------- and is owned by root.tty. On both hosts, /etc/groups
> has root and rshepard belonging to tty.
>
>   So I see no differences between the two hosts, yet logging in as a
> user on the server/workstation runs loadkeys while logging in as a
> user on the notebook doesn't.

Is loadkeys setuid on the workstation?

  ls -l $(which loadkeys)

If so, I would say adding group rw permissions to /dev/console would be 
the more appropriate way to grant that privilege.

--Eric
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