Hi! By the way, you can also use the VoiceOver commands to change the voice directly from the Login prompt. This changes it permanently, at least for me. To do this, simply use VO-Command-left and right arrow to switch between previous and next speech attribute respectively, then hold VO-Command and hit up or down arrow to increase or decrease their values. This applies to voice, pitch, rate, intonation and volume of the speech.
This seems to work for me permanently. I haven't encountered the issue where the voice I want doesn't show up yet, at least. Regards, Nic On Jul 29, 2011, at 2:48 PM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: > Unless something has changed that I am not aware of, Apple makes it difficult > to login as root. There is a very good reason for this, which is that root > on a standard Unix environment can override all permissions everywhere with > no prompts or asking for a password. If you look at FAQ lists for Macintosh > system administrators or Unix geeks, you should be able to find the one line > command required to enable the root user to login to the system. > > Most security experts frown on using the root ID directly, preferring the use > of "sudo" or another equivalent tool that will log activities that are > occurring. > > If changing the login VoiceOver voice is important to the list, I would > expect that given a little research, one could write a short program in > AppleScript that queries for all the voices, and then runs a > "do shell script as administrator "defaults write ...." > > > > Have a great day... > Jonathan C. Cohn > [email protected] > > > > On Jul 29, 2011, at 5:27 AM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote: > >> hello Michael; sorry for the delay >> >> Well, what we do here is log in with root, in the user name field and our >> usual password in the password field. I think that's right, it's been a >> while since I've had to do that. So if somebody else knows better, feel free >> to correct me. >> >> Lynne >> >> On 28 Jul 2011, at 15:25, michael weaver wrote: >> >> how do you do this? >> do you just type root in the password field and change the voices in the >> usual way? >> >> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> >> >> To reply to this post, please address your message to >> [email protected] >> >> You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the >> Mac-Access forum at the following URL: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >> >> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus >> and worm-free! >> >> Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting >> the list website at: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the > Mac-Access forum at the following URL: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at the following URL: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
