Bill Cox, le Sun 30 Oct 2011 10:49:30 -0400, a ?crit : > Rob mentioned that it would be better if speechd-up would run as a > non-privileged user, rather than root. I agree. Is there a simple > way to get the speakup_soft module to be readable by a non-root user? Simply chgrp/chmod /dev/softsynth. It could be useful to add to the documentation the udev rules to do that automatically. > I guess my preference would be readable by all users, but of course > that let's anyone logged into the machine follow what's going on on > the console. Ideally only the user logged into the console could > access /dev/synth. Does anyone know if this is doable? Such things are already done for sound & such, so it most probably is, probably in udev. Samuel