Frost, le Mon 13 Dec 2010 18:21:10 +0000, a ?crit : > 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. A userland breach is way less dangerous than a root or a kernel breach. > 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. My point is: when it happens, you don't want to loose physical control of the machine. > I don't want to go thru 20 different steps, just to kick up the volume > a notch on my own friggin keyboard. Who said so? > 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. Again, who said so? As I said already, consolekit already handles that for audio. Samuel
