djcp / yubitoggle

Disable/enable yubikeys on linux via good ol' xinput

yubitoggle

Use xinput to toggle a yubikey on and off. This allows you to keep the key plugged in and not worry about accidentally entering tokens with errant touches.

Getting started

• Clone this repo
• Install xinput through your package manager.
• Put yubitoggle somewhere on path. It doesn't require any special privileges.
• Run yubitoggle If all goes well, your yubikey will be enabled / disabled.
• You can run DEBUG=1 yubitoggle to get some basic debugging info.
• yubitoggle --state will tell you if the yubikey is off or on. "0" == off, "1" == on. This is useful in scripts.
• Use yubitoggle --off or yubitoggle --on to turn it explicitly off or on rather than toggling

Known issues

• This only works for a single yubikey.
• Only tested on ubuntu 16.04 but should work on a bunch of linuxes.

See also

• yubiswitch for linux

Contributors

• Dan Collis-Puro

License

MIT