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Apparently, though unproven, at 21:12 on Wednesday 17 November 2010, Philip |
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Webb did opine thusly: |
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> Some time ago, I removed Hal from my system with no problems. |
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> While adding 'mlocate' to /etc/group today, |
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> I noticed that many entries still have 'haldaemon' included. |
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> Is it safe to delete these ? |
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You can delete them safely with |
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userdel haldaemon |
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groupdel haldaemon |
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However, why bother? It's a system user and a group of the same name to which |
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several system users belong. The user and group own no files, are not |
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referenced in any security-related configs and as such, do nothing. |
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You likely also have an apache, postfix, adm and nobody system users which |
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also might not be in use. If you are happy leaving those in place, the same |
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would apply to haldaemon. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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