kbdsniffd(8)

💅 kbdsniffd(8) — keyboard sniffer daemon

okay so bestie, welcome to kbdsniffd, the keyboard sniffer daemon page from the keyboard sniffer daemon manual section 8. yes we're in section 8, the big-girl system-admin section, hydrate before reading 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

kbdsniffd — keyboard sniffing utility, and before you get weird about it: it's for a11y purposes, okay? it's giving accessibility, not giving sketchy. 💖

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so the keyboard sniffer daemon exists <italic>to by-pass keyboard events</italic>. that's the whole vibe, that's the assignment. it sits there sniffing on keyboards so events can be bypassed. no cap, that's literally the description. 🎀

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👑 Options 👑

every flag, every default, all of it, in order, slay:

• -n, --nodaemon — don't fork. stay in the foreground like a clingy bestie, no background disappearing act 💅
• -s, --scan — scan for the first keyboard device number. let it go find the keyboard itself, main character energy 🔍
• -h, --help — display this help. the classic, the icon, the one everyone runs first ✨
• -b, --basedir — device basedir, default is (/dev/input) 🦋
• -c, --config — config file, default is (/etc/kbdsniffd.conf) 🎀
• -u, --uinput — uinput device, default is (uinput) 🌀
• -p, --port — port for incoming connections, where 0 means unix socket; default is (0) 🌈
• -k, --key — authentication key, default is (default) 🔑 (yes the default key is literally the word default, bestie, please change it, i'm begging 🙈)
• -v, --verbose — be verbose. be that girl. say everything out loud 💬

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Marco Skambraks <marco@suse.de> — thank you for your service king 👑🌸

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

brld(8), sbl(8), orca(1) — go read those too, iykyk 📚✨

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ngl bestie, this one's a real short read — but shorter manpages are still iconic, and you read the whole thing, periodt. 💀💖

and that's a wrap, mwah 🎀 — this page is from the keyboard sniffer daemon manual, dated July 30, 2009, so it's vintage, it's retro, it's lowkey a little old but we still love her 🌸🫶