Question about Speech-dispatcher

[Christian]

Hi Hermann,
I actually tried before i installed the 0.6.6 install the 0.6.5 package but it 
crashed several times, at least when I was using ViaVoice. So there is also one 
other reason why I want to do it from source.
Christian


On 2008-02-24 at 10:23 Hermann wrote:

>I had to compile SD from the source for my Ubuntu laptop, because SD 
>0.6.3tested always crashs when an updatedb was performed in the background.
>Getting the packages from the Hardy branch was not possible, because 
>dpkg indicated, that various core packages were missing.
>I succeeded in building and setting up SD 0.6.6, although it was a lot 
>of work.
>But one question remains: I had to add a user "speech-dispatcher" to my 
>system by using the adduser command. This adds a regular user with 
>password, homedir and all privileges of a common user.
>I think this isn't necessary for SD, but I don't know how to add a user 
>with less privileges, a kind of shadow user that only exists by name.
>Is this possible, and if so, how can I perform this?
>Hermann
>
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