Bug 174850 – loadkeys get permission denied as regular user

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Bug 174850 - loadkeys get permission denied as regular user

Summary:	loadkeys get permission denied as regular user

Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 172425

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	kbd (Show other bugs)
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Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity high
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Assigned To:	Miloslav Trmač
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Reported:	2005-12-02 14:19 EST by Brian G. Anderson
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:11 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2005-12-02 14:39:53 EST
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Description Brian G. Anderson 2005-12-02 14:19:16 EST

Description of problem:
Whenever I login as a regular user  I get:

Keymap 0: Permission denied
Keymap 1: Permission denied
Keymap 1: Permission denied
KDSKBENT: Operation not permitted
loadkeys: could not deallocate keymap 3

I get the same message if I do loadkeys -d.  The command succeeds as root. 
Interestingly, if I do 'setenforce 0' and relogin I still get the same message.

The loadkey command seems to be run by /bin/unicode_start which is called by
/etc/profile.d/lang.sh.  Because loadkey fails the rest of the user profile and
.bashrc is not loaded.


This is a fresh install updated to devel repo as of 12/2/05.

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How reproducible:
at every login


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Fresh install
2. Login as regular user
3.
  
Actual results:
initial profile execution fails because loadkeys fails


Expected results:
loadkeys succeeds and user profiles complete execution


Additional info:

my $LANG environment was set to en_US.UTF-8

Comment 1 Miloslav Trmač 2005-12-02 14:39:53 EST

The kernel has prohibited changing the keymap by regular users recently, so
kbd-1.12-12 doesn't call loadkeys in unicode_start any more.

Thanks for your report.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 172425 ***

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