bug in speakup

Steve Holmes steve at lnx2.holmesgrown.com
Thu Jun 6 11:50:41 EDT 2002


Actually, I'm glad it's that way.  I generally use my machine as a
normal user and don't want to have to log in as root to change these
things.  Don't change this!

On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 11:35:56AM -0400, Ryan Mann wrote:
> Hi.  I've noticed that any user can change speakup synth parameters 
> whether they are root or not by editing files in the /proc/speakup 
> directory.
> For example, if a regular user does something like echo 0 > 
> /proc/speakup/volume the volume of the synthesizer will be changed to 
> zero.
> Is there any way to get around this?  Thanks.
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> 
> Ryan
> 
> 
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