request for advice about udev rule consequences

[Michael Biebl]

Am 25.02.22 um 21:02 schrieb Thorsten Glaser:
> Hi,
> 
> antimicro’ new upstream version wants to install the following
> udev rule file:
> 
> #Enable user access to keyboard using uinput event generator
> SUBSYSTEM=="misc", KERNEL=="uinput", TAG+="uaccess"
> 
> What exactly are the consequences of this? Should I warn users,
> or is this safe (current console user only), or what?

Whether it's safe to grant access to /dev/uinput (to local, active 
users) is probably better answered by the kernel maintainers or the 
maintainer of that specific subsystem.


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