Hi, What is the need for speech-dispatcher to run as root? Is it possible to run it as non-root? We need to modify the speechd.conf files from a non-root program and as such run the speech-dispatcher daemon with non-root privileges.
To solve the above problem I applied the setuid bits to the speech-dispatcher executable (and changed the permissions of the binary to 6711) and things have been rosy. However, I would like to ask whether using setuid is advisable in the OLPC laptop from a security point of view? i read using setuid should generally be avoided, however running speech-dispatcher as non-root is almost essential in our case. Looking forward to a reply. Thanks! Hemant _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
