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tsimionescuyesterday at 10:02 AM2 repliesview on HN

Which systems ask before allowing you to use a keyboard you just plugged in over USB? Windows, Ubuntu, Fedora certainly don't, at least not by default.


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JdeBPyesterday at 5:29 PM

Mine. Not asking whoever happens to have local physical access interactively, strictly speaking, as that just papers over one of the problems; but controlling what Human Input Devices are allowed when plugged in, by applying rules (keyable on various device parameters) set up by the administrator.

Working thus far on NetBSD, FreeBSD, and Linux. OpenBSD to come when I can actually get it to successfully install on the hardware that I have.

* https://jdebp.uk/Softwares/nosh/guide/user-virtual-terminal-...

In principle there's no reason that X11 servers or Wayland systems cannot similarly provide find-grained control over auto-configuration instead of a just-automatically-merge-all-input-devices approach.

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windwardyesterday at 10:57 AM

I've only seen it on Macs

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