* bug in speakup
@ Ryan Mann
` Steve Holmes
` Toby Fisher
0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Ryan Mann @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
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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* Re: bug in speakup
bug in speakup Ryan Mann
@ ` Steve Holmes
` Gregory Nowak
` Toby Fisher
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Steve Holmes @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
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
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
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` Steve Holmes
@ ` Gregory Nowak
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Gregory Nowak @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
Yes, I do most of my work as a normal user too, and would find it inconvenient to login as root just to change speech settings. If this is changed, then the individual should have a choice weather or not normal users should have access to /proc/speakup/. But then, this would prove redundent in the end, so it should probably be left as is.
Greg
On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 08:50:41AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> 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!
>
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: bug in speakup
bug in speakup Ryan Mann
` Steve Holmes
@ ` Toby Fisher
` Gene Collins
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Toby Fisher @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
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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` Toby Fisher
@ ` Gene Collins
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Gene Collins @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
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
>
>--
>Toby Fisher Email: toby@g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk
>Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239
>ICQ: #61744808
> Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
> See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
>
>
>
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>Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
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* RE: bug in speakup
@ mo.valli
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: mo.valli @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
Hay I agree
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Holmes [mailto:steve@lnx2.holmesgrown.com]
Sent: 06 June 2002 16:51
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: bug in speakup
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
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
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Speakup mailing list
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