user 'hal'?

[Art Alexion]

Vram wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 12:49 -0400, Art Alexion wrote:
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>>I was checking my groups and users and found that the cdrom and floppy
>>groups contained the mysterious user, 'hal'.  Where did this come from? 
>>Is it a security breach?
>>
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>try  this
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>dog <or cat if you still live in the dark ages>  /etc/passwd | grep hal
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Got it.  But what is 'dog'? I have cat.

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