how i can install spekaup on ubuntu? -------------------------------------------------- From: "Frost" <znvyyvfgf@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 7:21 PM To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Subject: Re: World writable speakup files in Linux next > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 04:41:57PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> No, you can't, because the loggued-in person might be a >> virus/worm/attacker/whatever which compromised the user's account. > > Then your security was breached already, and has nothing to do > with speakup. Personally, I think it's far worse for security to let a > user have access to any and every mail client on the system, in case > they use it to spam the entire planet with it, and those are left wide > open on purpose. <shrugs> You don't see me clamping down restrictions on > those, just because someone *might* abuse them and lose me my internet > connection. > > If it's a virus, then it's not SpeakUP's problem, but mine for > not following proper prophylactic procedures. If it's a user on the > system goofing off, first they get warned, then they lose their > accounts. Again, it's not SpeakUP's fault. Having access to SpeakUP > from any console under any account *is* my problem, and I don't want to > go thru 20 different steps, just to kick up the volume a notch on my own > friggin keyboard. I certainly don't want to have to go through 20 > different steps every time I need to su to someone else to check if > something is working properly for them. Secure SpeakUP on your own, > create your own distro, and release that if you want. Stay out of my > computer. > > Michael > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
