Re: [gentoo-user] haldaemon group/user

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

Apparently, though unproven, at 11:50 on Thursday 26 May 2011, Mick did opine 
thusly:

> On Thursday 26 May 2011 05:49:21 Valmor de Almeida wrote:
> > On 05/25/2011 04:46 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Valmor de Almeida
> > > <val.gentoo@gmail.com>
> 
> wrote:
> > >> Should these have been eliminated or do I need to do it by hand or
> > >> something else still needs it?
> > > 
> > > I think you should do it by hand.
> > > 
> > > In general, you can assume portage will never delete any config files
> > > or anything from /etc without your involvement (either manually or
> > > with etc-update or similar).
> > 
> > Cleaned by hand. All working.
> 
> I just had a look and noticed that haldaemon is added as a user to a load
> of groups.  The group 'cdrw' only has haldaemon as a user.  What shall I
> do with it?
> 
> # less /etc/group | grep haldaemon
> disk:x:6:root,adm,haldaemon
> floppy:x:11:root,haldaemon
> cdrom:x:19:haldaemon,michael
> cdrw:x:80:haldaemon
> haldaemon:x:1004:haldaemon
> plugdev:x:1005:haldaemon,michael

You should still delete it.


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