On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 08:52:32PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 08:24:44PM +0100, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> > Having ACPI hotkey events delivered as normal keyboard input makes it
> > difficult to run system scripts as root:root.
> 
> But that does nothing to help systems which only expose sleep keys via 
> the keyboard controller. It's not practical to get them to generate ACPI 
> events - however, it /is/ practical to get ACPI events to generate input 
> events. At that point there's nothing to stop a hotkey daemon running as 
> root.

So what you really propose is to abstract the handling of ACPI events
by yet another layer, a hotkey daemon?

./Brix
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