From: <bardiazakeri@gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: World writable speakup files in Linux next
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:52:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <93564A09B17C45BE9B870D49EC802549@BardiaDator> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101213145306.GA8824@rivensight.dyndns.org>
how i install speakup in ubuntu
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From: "Frost" <znvyyvfgf@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 3:53 PM
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: World writable speakup files in Linux next
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 02:06:12PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>> > >But, the world writable bit can be seen as a big security issue right
>> > >now, right? It would be good to get that fixed, or at the very least,
>> > >narrowed down a lot right now.
>
> Can't you just monitor for keyboard activity alone, as when
> you're in a terminal console, operating the system remotely, you don't
> need to issue commands to SpeakUP? Only at the local keyboard?
>
> Maybe it's too complicated because of the kernel or what-not. I
> don't know. I just figure that if it's not coming from /dev/Stty#, then
> the command should be allowed, or only allowed if the commands are being
> issued by a logged in user at the console, unless it's a major security
> risk to have the cat accidently pressing a SpeakUp key combo. If you
> trust a person on your system enough to give them a user account, then
> it stands reasonable that you alsod trust them enough not to F with /sys
> and speakupconf without knowing what they're doing
>
> Michael
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