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diff --git a/_posts/yubikey-with-non-us-keyboards.rst b/_posts/yubikey-with-non-us-keyboards.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..73bd1dd --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/yubikey-with-non-us-keyboards.rst @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +title: Make Yubikey working with non-us keyboard layouts +categories: + - computer +date: 2013-04-09T23:59:41 +tags: +--- + +My employer started to use system which allows using Yubikey for +authentication [*added later*: the most important thing is that whole +system is `Open Source`_, which is very very good thing], so I have +finally gave up and bought one myself as well. It works really well, and +comparing to the previous system it is both smaller and more convenient +to use (not mentioning that `the previous system has been +compromised`_). + +The only problem I had with it is, that in order to be ultra-secure it +doesn't allow much configuration (my version of Yubikey doesn't have +``use-numeric-keypad`` option) so with my default Czech keyboard, it +didn't work, and I had to switch all the time between Czech and US +keyboard manually. + +The first option seemed to be to use custom configuration snippet as +described in the Fedora Wiki and create a file in +``/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/`` directory with content like:: + + Section "InputClass" + Identifier "keyboard defaults" + MatchProduct "Yubic Yubico Yubikey II" + + Option "XkbModel" "pc104" + Option "XkbLayout" "us" + Option "XKbOptions" "" + EndSection + +Unfortunately, this solution doesn’t work with Gnome, which controls +input devices dynamically and overrides Xorg defaults. + +Finally, I have found the solution with very kind help of Peter Hutterer +and his blogpost on `Custom input device configuration in GNOME`_. When +the example script from ``gnome-settings-daemon`` is modified to include +the configuration, it could also set Yubikey (and only Yubikey) input +device to us keyboard layout. The key part is:: + + case "$1" in + Yubico*) + echo "Setting Yubikey layout" + setxkbmap -device $2 -layout us + ;; + esac + +Whole script is +http://luther.ceplovi.cz/git/input-device-configuration.git/tree/input-device-config.sh. + +.. _`Open Source`: + http://linotp.org/ +.. _`the previous system has been compromised`: + http://arstechnica.com/security/2011/06/rsa-finally-comes-clean-securid-is-compromised/ +.. _`Custom input device configuration in GNOME`: + http://who-t.blogspot.com.au/2011/03/custom-input-device-configuration-in.html |