[lug] Re: disabling a keyboard

On 1/17/06, Jeremiah Bess <jeremiah.bess@gmail.com> wrote:

On 1/17/06, anuj agarwal < coolbuddyguy@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all
Is it possible to disable keyboard temporarily? I want that to disable keyboard for a particular user in Linux.


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Anuj Agarwal
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Unplug it. HAHA!  I did a nice Google search and came up with nothing but the same question posted elsewhere, and no answers. I don't think it is possible. You can change the keyboard settings in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but it requires X to restart to take effect. I don't think that is what you were looking for. I checked a few things on a linux box, but could not come up with anything. Maybe one of the coding geeks here can come up with a program that redirects keyboard input to /dev/null.

So please explain why you want to disable keyboard access for a user?

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Jeremiah E. Bess
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Some extra info I dug up:

Most keyboards send information to /dev/event0.

Then there is this program:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/wholehog/stuart/samevent/

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Jeremiah E. Bess
Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of twins