/proc/speakup

[Steve Holmes]

I thought I heard a while back that only root could update these files.
Is that so?

On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Geoff Shang wrote:

> Hi:
> 
> Well of course, you can still be behind a firewall if you run one on the
> linux box itself, but your point is a good one.  As much as I don't fear
> hackers, I am bothered that another user could arbitrarily set my speech
> params to something else, like the volume to minimum or something.  Jim and
> I are debating this currently on the reflector.
> 
> My current thinking is to make it all root writeable only and get users to
> implement sudo for non-root access, but unless you want to force this
> situation onto people you need to make the proc/speakup permissions
> settable, which they aren't at present.
> 
> Geoff.
> 
> 
> 
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