[SOLVED] How do I run "kbdrate" as non-root?

Terry Coats · 04-13-2018, 06:52 AM

I'm having trouble figuring out how to run "kbdrate" as a regular user.
I need this as my keyboard spews out characters like bullets out of a
machine gun if I don't slow it down. It makes it almost impossible to type.
The problem is kbdrate won't run as a regular user. Root runs it fine.
I can put

Code:

kbdrate -r 10 -d 500

into root's .bash_profile and it works fine. For root.
I can insert the same code into /etc/profile and it runs fine. For root.
When I put the same code into my /home/terry/.bash_profile and login as my user
I'm told "operation not permitted."
When

Code:

kbdrate -r 10 -d 500

is placed in system-wide /etc/profile and I log in as my regular user
once again I get a message "operation not permitted."
So root gets to have a behaved keyboard but my regular user does not.
I've worked around this by placing code

Code:

sudo kbdrate -r 10 -d 500

into my regular user's .bash_profile and it works. I've configured sudo so
regular user can run privileged commands with out a password.
I guess my question is how to run "kbdrate" so it works for every user when the
system boots up? It shouldn't be this hard.

BW-userx · 04-13-2018, 10:59 AM

you can try

Code:

xset r rate 500 10

man xset

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...ration_in_Xorg

http://suso.suso.org/xulu/Setting_yo...t_rate_under_X.

Terry Coats · 04-13-2018, 12:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BW-userx

you can try

Code:

xset r rate 500 10

man xset

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...ration_in_Xorg

http://suso.suso.org/xulu/Setting_yo...t_rate_under_X.

Thanks but I don't have x running yet. I'm just starting blfs 8.2.
I probably should have mentioned that. I just have text console.

BW-userx · 04-13-2018, 12:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Terry Coats

Thanks but I don't have x running yet. I'm just starting blfs 8.2.
I probably should have mentioned that. I just have text console.

OIC, well try putting

Code:

kbdrate -r 10 -d 500

in rc.local so when you boot hopefully it sets it system wide. its worth a try.

Terry Coats · 04-13-2018, 02:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BW-userx

OIC, well try putting

Code:

kbdrate -r 10 -d 500

in rc.local so when you boot hopefully it sets it system wide. its worth a try.

lfs doesn't have an rc.local but thanks for the idea. I was able to
cook something up by looking at how the system starts things up.

I made a very short script called "kbd"

Code:

#!/bin/sh
#set keyboard rate
kbdrate -r 10 -d 500

and put it in /etc/init.d and made it executable. see "chmod --help"
for how to do this. I then made symlinks from the runlevels I'll be using.

Code:

cd /etc/rc.d/rc3.d
ln -s ../init.d/kbd S999kbd

Code:

cd /etc/rc.d/rc5.d
ln -s ../init.d/kbd S999kbd

Seems to be working ok although I'm not sure this is the professional
solution but whatever works I guess.
The linking looks kind of odd but there's an "/etc/init.d" and an "/etc/rc.d/init.d"
and they are linked together. I've forgotten the reason lfs does this.
I'll mark this solved.

BW-userx · 04-13-2018, 03:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Terry Coats

lfs doesn't have an rc.local but thanks for the idea. I was able to
cook something up by looking at how the system starts things up.

I made a very short script called "kbd"

Code:

#!/bin/sh
#set keyboard rate
kbdrate -r 10 -d 500

and put it in /etc/init.d and made it executable. see "chmod --help"
for how to do this. I then made symlinks from the runlevels I'll be using.

Code:

cd /etc/rc.d/rc3.d
ln -s ../init.d/kbd S999kbd

Code:

cd /etc/rc.d/rc5.d
ln -s ../init.d/kbd S999kbd

Seems to be working ok although I'm not sure this is the professional
solution but whatever works I guess.
The linking looks kind of odd but there's an "/etc/init.d" and an "/etc/rc.d/init.d"
and they are linked together. I've forgotten the reason lfs does this.
I'll mark this solved.

you should be able to create one.

Code:

$ cat /etc/rc.d/rc.local
#!/bin/sh
#
# /etc/rc.d/rc.local:  Local system initialization script.
#
# Put any local startup commands in here.  Also, if you have
# anything that needs to be run at shutdown time you can
# make an /etc/rc.d/rc.local_shutdown script and put those
# commands in there.

jr_bob_dobbs · 04-14-2018, 07:00 AM

Would setting the suid bit on the actual /usr/bin/kbdrate binary have also worked?