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Re: Breakage from patch: Only root should be able to set the N_MOUSE line discipline.

Alan Cox
Tue, 01 Mar 2005 08:03:18 -0800

On Maw, 2005-03-01 at 11:47, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> A nonprivileged user could inject mouse movement and/or keystrokes
> (using the sunkbd driver) into the input subsystem, taking over the
> console/X, where another user is logged in.

Ouch. Ok that explains much.

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