* Re: success with BRLTTY
` Saqib Shaikh
@ ` S. Massy
` Andor Demarteau
` Andor Demarteau
` (2 subsequent siblings)
3 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: S. Massy @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: blinux-list
On Mon, 05 Feb 2001, Saqib Shaikh wrote:
> hi, just wondering. in order to run brltty do you have to be logged in as
> root?
I believe it is possible to run it as SUID root although I have never tried it myself.
> saqib
>
> Please visit my home page at:
> http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~sshaik
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ben van Poppel" <benny@netspace.net.au>
> To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 10:53 AM
> Subject: success with BRLTTY
>
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Just thought I'd share the happy news that I installed BRLTTY on my
> > system this morning quite painlessly. I've played with it for a couple
> > of hours since, in the shell, running screen-oriented apps and inside
> > of Emacs with Emacspeak running. I've come to the conclusion that
> > it'll be a great help with reading and producing braille docs for uni
> > this year, especially since I got an email from transcription today,
> > stating that they can't guarantee any deadlines being met at this
> > stage. <grin> Thanks and regards to the BRLTTY team, and a belated
> > happy New Year to all.
> >
> > Ben
> >
> > --
> > '"Down there," he said, "are people who will follow any dragon,
> > worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of hum-drum
> > everyday badness. Not the really high creative loathsomeness of the
> > great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin,
> > you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil, not
> > because they say yes, but because they don't say no."'
> >
> > (Terry Pratchett, Guards Guards, P302)
> >
> >
> >
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^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread* Re: success with BRLTTY
` S. Massy
@ ` Andor Demarteau
` Vopat Z
0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Andor Demarteau @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: blinux-list
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, S. Massy wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Feb 2001, Saqib Shaikh wrote:
>
> > hi, just wondering. in order to run brltty do you have to be logged in as
> > root?
> I believe it is possible to run it as SUID root although I have never tried it myself.
I think that's not much of help cause it still needs to have
root-permissions to run.
If I have some time later, I'll try it running it as nonroot.
> > saqib
> >
> > Please visit my home page at:
> > http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~sshaik
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ben van Poppel" <benny@netspace.net.au>
> > To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
> > Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 10:53 AM
> > Subject: success with BRLTTY
> >
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Just thought I'd share the happy news that I installed BRLTTY on my
> > > system this morning quite painlessly. I've played with it for a couple
> > > of hours since, in the shell, running screen-oriented apps and inside
> > > of Emacs with Emacspeak running. I've come to the conclusion that
> > > it'll be a great help with reading and producing braille docs for uni
> > > this year, especially since I got an email from transcription today,
> > > stating that they can't guarantee any deadlines being met at this
> > > stage. <grin> Thanks and regards to the BRLTTY team, and a belated
> > > happy New Year to all.
> > >
> > > Ben
> > >
> > > --
> > > '"Down there," he said, "are people who will follow any dragon,
> > > worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of hum-drum
> > > everyday badness. Not the really high creative loathsomeness of the
> > > great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin,
> > > you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil, not
> > > because they say yes, but because they don't say no."'
> > >
> > > (Terry Pratchett, Guards Guards, P302)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Blinux-list mailing list
> > > Blinux-list@redhat.com
> > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Blinux-list mailing list
> > Blinux-list@redhat.com
> > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
>
>
>
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>
slainte mhaith (good health)
-----------
Andor Demarteau E-mail: ademarte@students.cs.uu.nl
student computer science www: http://www.students.cs.uu.nl/~ademarte/
Utrecht University note: homepage is outdated, don't remind me!
-----------
Believe in yourself, know what you want, and make it happen!
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: success with BRLTTY
` Saqib Shaikh
` S. Massy
@ ` Andor Demarteau
` Ben van Poppel
` Nicolas Pitre
3 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Andor Demarteau @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: blinux-list
hmm, interresting question.
I think you could run it as non-root but only within screen.
It's a deamon that actually gets a serial-port and waits for a
braille-display to connect.
I'm not sure though, but you could try it anyway.
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Saqib Shaikh wrote:
> hi, just wondering. in order to run brltty do you have to be logged in as
> root?
> saqib
>
> Please visit my home page at:
> http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~sshaik
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ben van Poppel" <benny@netspace.net.au>
> To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 10:53 AM
> Subject: success with BRLTTY
>
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Just thought I'd share the happy news that I installed BRLTTY on my
> > system this morning quite painlessly. I've played with it for a couple
> > of hours since, in the shell, running screen-oriented apps and inside
> > of Emacs with Emacspeak running. I've come to the conclusion that
> > it'll be a great help with reading and producing braille docs for uni
> > this year, especially since I got an email from transcription today,
> > stating that they can't guarantee any deadlines being met at this
> > stage. <grin> Thanks and regards to the BRLTTY team, and a belated
> > happy New Year to all.
> >
> > Ben
> >
> > --
> > '"Down there," he said, "are people who will follow any dragon,
> > worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of hum-drum
> > everyday badness. Not the really high creative loathsomeness of the
> > great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin,
> > you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil, not
> > because they say yes, but because they don't say no."'
> >
> > (Terry Pratchett, Guards Guards, P302)
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Blinux-list mailing list
> > Blinux-list@redhat.com
> > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Blinux-list mailing list
> Blinux-list@redhat.com
> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
>
slainte mhaith (good health)
-----------
Andor Demarteau E-mail: ademarte@students.cs.uu.nl
student computer science www: http://www.students.cs.uu.nl/~ademarte/
Utrecht University note: homepage is outdated, don't remind me!
-----------
Believe in yourself, know what you want, and make it happen!
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread* Re: success with BRLTTY
` Saqib Shaikh
` S. Massy
` Andor Demarteau
@ ` Ben van Poppel
` Nicolas Pitre
3 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Ben van Poppel @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: blinux-list; +Cc: blinux-list
Hi Saqib,
You can certainly run it as a normal user. Look in the makefile from
about line 90. It explains what lines you need to change before
compiling so the thing runs with root permissions.
Good luck,
Ben
--
'"Down there," he said, "are people who will follow any dragon,
worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of hum-drum
everyday badness. Not the really high creative loathsomeness of the
great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin,
you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil, not
because they say yes, but because they don't say no."'
(Terry Pratchett, Guards Guards, P302)
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread* Re: success with BRLTTY
` Saqib Shaikh
` (2 preceding siblings ...)
` Ben van Poppel
@ ` Nicolas Pitre
3 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Nicolas Pitre @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Saqib Shaikh; +Cc: blinux-list
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Saqib Shaikh wrote:
> hi, just wondering. in order to run brltty do you have to be logged in as
> root?
Not necessarily. You only need access permissions to /dev/vcsa0, /dev/tty0
and /dev/ttyS0 (or whatever your serial device is).
Nicolas
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