Speech Dispatcher 0.7 Beta -- Please help with testing

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On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 5:40 AM, Bill Cox <waywardgeek at gmail.com> wrote:
> I admit to being an idiot, at least about speech-dispatcher. ?For one
> thing, I find I'm unable to telnet from a remote machine to port 6560.
> ?It looks like it's restricted to the loopback interface by default.
> I have to be logged into your machine to start talking to you through
> speech-dispatcher. ?Honestly, I feel a lot better knowing that. ?I
> find that protections from other users who are already logged into
> your machine are a bit like locks on doors. ?They help honest people
> stay honest, but wont keep out serious bad guys. ?So, I also consider
> it a bug to have a local TCP port that all users can manipulate with
> no permission checking, and I agree it's not critical.

I think that an approach like the X server would be the correct
solution. Using a magic cookie to authenticate the user be it a socket
or TCP or whatever.