From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QPfid-0007nD-9n for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 26 May 2011 18:55:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C9CC81C0CA; Thu, 26 May 2011 18:54:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D3451C0CA for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 18:54:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyi11 with SMTP id 11so999245wyi.40 for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 11:54:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent :references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=KBg/ABsAgVd1GzyLZqJfUrPY3BbkBanuprJTWFn+IIY=; b=NMSFaEaHg9oFmlYEpfIFZd4Jrbp5R0pXJxiD33y2NbNo0z5BqNO6LkdOLiaQBkUMjv xkOHC/XPq5rTA/tbflxHhDqqw3XZZz+XFM/CQXMkUzFFDIkXmNBQa4PMYDeMlPbJbvAy WWlqVLCH+fiDM08ER0yl40JI9SK2+bmK6dqE0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=UwzVGF2rnddk0WbXvn/MQGzxc3hVQ74A52IAYR4cL1e8POdbhLDfR49vk4IiSFZuiZ mgKVnd69/xsOhjcNM6vMlmbCDmADqslBohDUHeVMp9gCiNrjcRVat/DehD5N0R/XC+rI SJl4e7rF0hRszcpFTcu9YhbubpZgMrybdNsMI= Received: by 10.227.200.206 with SMTP id ex14mr1235594wbb.12.1306436040682; Thu, 26 May 2011 11:54:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ej7sm669659wbb.19.2011.05.26.11.53.58 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 26 May 2011 11:53:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] haldaemon group/user Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 19:54:24 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.37-gentoo-r4; KDE/4.6.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <4DDD68A3.1050205@gmail.com> <201105261227.48614.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <201105261829.34838.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201105261829.34838.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart6714277.FVLXvgX7JI"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201105261954.36894.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: d27f8c8e27b357ea55ae089c34031c34 --nextPart6714277.FVLXvgX7JI Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thursday 26 May 2011 17:29:34 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 13:27 on Thursday 26 May 2011, Mick did > opine >=20 > thusly: > > > > 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. Wh= at > > > > shall I do with it? > > > >=20 > > > > # 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 > > >=20 > > > You should still delete it. > >=20 > > I assume you mean just the haldaemon, not the group cdrw, right? > >=20 > > Then I leave the cdrw empty with no users, correct? >=20 > Yes, just delete the user. It was created for hal to use and hal needed > membership in various groups to work properly, noticeably for things like > devices in /dev. Thanks. Just deleted haldaemon group and user throughout the file. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart6714277.FVLXvgX7JI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk3eoewACgkQVTDTR3kpaLapvgCgrbIyfGUNIEpjOaEKzOZSb6bs MbAAn1PmQJkcVkks2zhGK3AlXFROP4GG =ZuRP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart6714277.FVLXvgX7JI--