bug in speakup

[Gene Collins]

Hi all.  This is * NOT * a bug.  0 is a valid volume setting.  We don't
want users to have to become root every time they want to adjust their
synth.  There are some settings that you need to be root for, because
they can drasticly affect system performance, but things like volume,
pitch, rate and voice are not in that list.  I don't know about you, but
I certainly don't want to have to become root just to change my volume
or punctuation level.

Gene


>On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, 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.
>
>Hmmm, well if I remember my unix file system university lectures
>correctly, you can remove the ability to see a file or directory by
>removing the read permission for it, so that the permitions would be
>something like:
>drxxx
>I think you'd need to set something like 711 permitions with chmod.
>
>It wouldn't stop someone going in there, so you could still modify the
>files because you know the directory is there, however unless someone
>knows the exact name of the directory, they'll never find it.
>
>If you were going to do this, however, you'd needto put the chmod command
>into your startup scripts somewhere, as the /proc file system is
>non-transient.
>
>HTH
>
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