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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] haldaemon group/user
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 11:06:22
Message-Id: 201105261230.12260.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] haldaemon group/user by Mick
1 Apparently, though unproven, at 11:50 on Thursday 26 May 2011, Mick did opine
2 thusly:
3
4 > On Thursday 26 May 2011 05:49:21 Valmor de Almeida wrote:
5 > > On 05/25/2011 04:46 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
6 > > > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Valmor de Almeida
7 > > > <val.gentoo@×××××.com>
8 >
9 > wrote:
10 > > >> Should these have been eliminated or do I need to do it by hand or
11 > > >> something else still needs it?
12 > > >
13 > > > I think you should do it by hand.
14 > > >
15 > > > In general, you can assume portage will never delete any config files
16 > > > or anything from /etc without your involvement (either manually or
17 > > > with etc-update or similar).
18 > >
19 > > Cleaned by hand. All working.
20 >
21 > I just had a look and noticed that haldaemon is added as a user to a load
22 > of groups. The group 'cdrw' only has haldaemon as a user. What shall I
23 > do with it?
24 >
25 > # less /etc/group | grep haldaemon
26 > disk:x:6:root,adm,haldaemon
27 > floppy:x:11:root,haldaemon
28 > cdrom:x:19:haldaemon,michael
29 > cdrw:x:80:haldaemon
30 > haldaemon:x:1004:haldaemon
31 > plugdev:x:1005:haldaemon,michael
32
33 You should still delete it.
34
35
36 --
37 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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