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Re: Hyper-typematic and Firefox responsiveness in Weston.

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On Mon 03 Jan 2022 at 16:25:47 (+1100), David wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Jan 2022 at 14:05, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Thu 30 Dec 2021 at 19:48:05 (-0800), peter@easthope.ca wrote:
> 
> > > In weston, keyboard response can be hyper-typematic.
> 
> > The kbdrate can be set at @reboot in root's
> > crontab to make it possible to login at a text VC more
> > easily, if it's messing up your typing passwords.
> 
> Re early setting of typematic ...
> 
> These days all my root filesystems are in LUKS containers.
> 
> And one of my laptops was so hyper-typematic that there
> was about a 50% chance of getting the 'cryptsetup open'
> password accepted when prompted by the initrd.
> 
> While this was great for security ($ADVERSARY has
> difficulty to boot the machine even if they stole the
> password!), it was a bit inconvenient. And also not
> great for security (gives $THEM multiple opportunities
> to surveil your password as you type it over and over again) ;p
> 
> So I now run 'kbdrate' inside the initrd. This seems to have
> solved the problem there and in all subsequent layers.

I presume you do this by placing something like
  /sbin/kbdrate -r 8 -d 500 -s
± a shebang, into a file like
  /etc/initramfs-tools/scripts/<something>/kbdrate.sh
Which <something> is appropriate?

Cheers,
David.

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Re: Hyper-typematic and Firefox responsiveness in Weston. Johann Klammer <klammerj@a1.net> - 2021-12-31 19:50 +0100
  Re: Hyper-typematic and Firefox responsiveness in Weston. <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-01 08:00 +0100
  Re: Hyper-typematic and Firefox responsiveness in Weston. peter@easthope.ca - 2022-01-01 20:40 +0100
    Re: Hyper-typematic and Firefox responsiveness in Weston. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-01-03 04:10 +0100
      Re: Hyper-typematic and Firefox responsiveness in Weston. David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2022-01-03 06:30 +0100
        Re: Hyper-typematic and Firefox responsiveness in Weston. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-01-03 22:50 +0100
          Re: Hyper-typematic and Firefox responsiveness in Weston. David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2022-01-04 04:50 +0100
            Re: Hyper-typematic and Firefox responsiveness in Weston. David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2022-01-04 05:30 +0100
      Re: Hyper-typematic and Firefox responsiveness in Weston. peter@easthope.ca - 2022-01-18 06:10 +0100

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