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- echo "This script sets up read permissions for the kernel's event devices
- in order for your user to be able to run WhatPulse. It will create a new
- group called 'input', add your username to that group, and make the event
- devices readable for the group. Press Ctrl+C now if you don't want this,
- or press Return to continue."
- read temp
- if [ "`whoami`" != "root" ] ; then
- echo "This script must be run as root (e.g. using sudo). Will now exit."
- exit
- fi
- # set up persistent settings
- if [ -r /etc/udev/rules.d/99-whatpulse-input.rules ] ; then
- echo "/etc/udev/rules.d/99-whatpulse-input.rules already exists. Will not change it."
- else
- echo "KERNEL==\"event*\", NAME=\"input/%k\", MODE=\"640\", GROUP=\"input\"" >> /etc/udev/rules.d/99-whatpulse-input.rules
- if [ $? != 0 ] ; then
- echo "There was some error creating the udev rule file. Sorry. Quitting."
- exit
- fi
- echo "UDEV rules file has been set up."
- fi
- if [ -n "`cat /etc/group | grep -e ^input:`" ] ; then
- echo "Group 'input' already exists!"
- else
- groupadd input
- echo "Created group 'input'."
- fi
- echo "Please enter the username that should get added to the group:"
- read username
- if [ -z "$username" ] ; then
- echo "What do you mean by an empty username? Quitting."
- exit
- fi
- if [ -z "`cat /etc/passwd | grep -e ^$username:`" ] ; then
- echo "This username doesn't exist. Quitting."
- exit
- fi
- gpasswd -a $username input &> /dev/null
- if [ $? != 0 ] ; then
- # maybe this is openSUSE (or a similar system)
- usermod -A input $username &> /dev/null
- if [ $? != 0 ] ; then
- echo "There was a problem adding your username to the group 'input'.
- Please add your user to the 'input' group yourself."
- else
- echo "Added user '$username' to group 'input', using the special openSUSE method."
- fi
- else
- echo "Added user '$username' to group 'input'."
- fi
- echo " "
- echo "Setup of persistent permission settings complete."
- # apply non-persistent settings so that no reboot is necessary :-)
- echo " "
- echo "Since the UDEV rules will only be applied when you restart your
- computer, this script will now apply temporary read permissions for all
- users to the device files to let you use WhatPulse immediately. You have
- the chance to cancel this by pressing Ctrl+C now (which you should do if
- you fear that other users on your computer might log your keyboard
- events!). Otherwise press Return to continue."
- read temp
- find /dev/input/ -iname 'event*' -exec chmod 644 {} \;
- echo "All done, have fun using WhatPulse!"
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