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! >