Well, here's an idea; How about making the /proc/speak system root writeable only and provide a user script that could be used by the user and have it setuid to update the system. As I think about this, I suppose that really wouldn't be any different than opening up the /proc files. -----Original Message----- From: Geoff Shang [mailto:gshang@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 6:01 AM To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: /proc/speakup On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Steve Holmes wrote: > I thought I heard a while back that only root could update these files. > Is that so? That is not so. The files in /proc/speakup apart from the exceptions discussed earlier today can be updated by any user on the system. There are some files in /proc/speakup/<synth> (where <synth> is the currently used synth) which contain data that, if modified, might cause serious damage to the system. These files therefore can only be modified by root. Since the proc file system is only a vertual file system, commands like chmod and chown do not actually work, even though they return without errors. The permissions have to be set as part of the speakup code. Jim and I discussed alternative access methods for these files, but the choices seem to be access for all or access for no-one except root, without making it a configurable option in either the kernel command line or perhaps the kernel config. Personally, I'd be quite happy to see all this be root access only, but I can understand why people might want to be able to change synth settings in user-space. Geoff. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
